Sea Lavender (Limonium vulgare) blooms along the salt marsh coast of north Norfolk in August. I took a walk along the coast path on Sunday from Stiffkey to Blakeney then on to Cley and saw plenty of it.
 It's an eye opener to visit a far off place like Oregon but we have some remarkable landscapes here in the UK. This shoreline is one of those areas where the high tide rolls out for miles revealing a landscape of marshes, mudflats and creeks. The horizon is a long way off and the marshes stretch into the distance under a big sky.
 Along the way drifts of Sea Lavender cast a violet-blue haze among the tough, tufty grasses.