I went back to watch the last hour of harvesting those oats (see August 13 – oats and ladybirds.) There was a glorious sunset and a pale harvest moon rising over the hills.  Earlier on I spotted a brown argus butterfly; although the wings are brown a soft blue sheen sometimes shows up and you can see it on the front raised wing.

Clouds were coming in fast to the west but to the east, across the Chilterns, the moon was rising in a cloudless sky.

All photographs copyright Lynne Revette Butler