{"id":35536,"date":"2026-06-11T16:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35536"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:07:22","slug":"a-walk-along-the-lane-from-rye-farm-car-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35536","title":{"rendered":"A walk along the lane from Rye Farm Car Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A walk along the lane from Rye Farm Car Park offered two very different moods: yesterday evening brought clear light and sunshine and a rainbow, while today&#8217;s visit came under grey skies after rain.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026061103.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAfter the car park, there is a huge field on the right that appears to be planted with beans, possibly broad beans. The dense green crop stretches across the whole field.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026061104.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOn the left, beyond Rye Farm Meadow, is a smaller meadow where the grass and wildflowers grow tall. There stands Kingfisher Barn, in its grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The web-spinning caterpillars that have stripped hedges along this lane in some recent years seem less widespread this summer &#8211; so far.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026061102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBeyond the bean field is a meadow filled with sheep. Their baaing could be heard from some distance. Close-up baas range from low growls to high-pitched bleats. Most of the sheep were grazing, but a few had stretched their necks through the square-wire fence,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026061101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nor used the fence as a ladder to reach the more luxuriant leaves above.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026061105.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOpposite is another meadow where piles of logs lie among the grass, the trunks of trees that were cut near the River Thames earlier this year.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026061107.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday there was a rainbow.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026061106.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nToday there were slugs after the rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A walk along the lane from Rye Farm Car Park offered two very different moods: yesterday evening brought clear light and sunshine and a rainbow, while today&#8217;s visit came under grey skies after rain. After the car park, there is a huge field on the right that appears to be planted with beans, possibly broad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}