Today's Newark Wonders (another photographic miscellania)

The weather turned fine, but my muscles were still sore after a long run where I took a few mis-steps in the long grass. So I walked through a rather drab and uniform cemetery compared with the constant living changes of spring.

I walked through the threatened grasslands of the sports hub site, where butterflies - skippers, large whites, small tortoiseshells, meadow browns, ringlets, common blue and small heath were all on the wing there.

I walked through the estate, where I always look for life in unusual places.

And then I walked through Devon Park, where butterflies and damselflies flew, adoring the nettles like the least tacky QVC jewellery you've ever seen.

Even at home, a forest shield bug sat on a sycamore leaf, and helped me read Empire magazine in the sun.

This bluebottle can't read this Sconce Park sign

Small copper on the Sonce fortification

Female banded demoiselle chomps down on a mayfly of some kind

Female common blue damselfly, I think, on Devon Pasture

Grasshopper on the Sconce

A tricky subject - small heath on the Sports Hub site

Large skipper

Another large skipper - the small ones don't let you get close!

Common blue at the sports hub, wing undersides look a little dully coloured

You see I think these underwing spots are wrong for a common blue, but nothing else you'd see round here fits

Forest shield bug on sycamore

Not the prettiest face