Pete's Walks - Ox-eye Daisy

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Photo taken 22/05/07 near Woodcote, on Day 19 of my second Chiltern Way walk

A common and easily recognisable flower, I saw it many times in the grassier places I visited on my second Chiltern Way walk. Apparently it was the Ancient Greeks who thought it looked like the eyes of their oxen - what with Homer describing the sea as 'Wine-Red', I'm beginning to wonder what drugs they were on ...

Photo taken 6/06/07between Little Hampden and Cobblers Hill, Bucks, on Day 24 of my second Chiltern Way walk. I somehow managed to get the toe of my left boot into the shot!