The sun did arrive as forecast and we all want to know ‘for how long’. The warmth was welcome but oh boy! how it made the woods shine. New growth was everywhere from this bold new Beech tree…….
to this frilly Fern. The old leaves drying and slowly disintegrating back into the earth adding much needed nutrients….
It is just amazing how the trees have so quickly changed from bare skeletons to wearing their summer cloak of leaves, the trail to the woods looks both very different and even more welcoming…..
Our woodland is a real English mix of trees, Pine, Oak, Chestnut, Birch, Beech Cherry, Hazel, Hawthorn and Sycamore……..
and my favourite in the spring is the Sycamore (much to many conservationists disgust)…who can fail to love these leaves..
The leaves are forming their canopy. The sun still manages to dapple the woodland floor as it seeks a way through the leaves, other parts are now heavily shaded……
The Bluebells have suffered in the rains and now loosing their fight to retain their flowers and are dying back as the season ends.…..
A lone clump are still striving to provide a last flourish of deep Blue…….
My two woodland companions love these morning walkies…even though Carla does like to just stand and stare at times…
While Buster much prefers to forage for who knows what in the lush carpet of leaves….
I to will stop…but it will be to listen to the spring song of the birds. The woods have for so long been silent but now they are a multitude of calls….soon to be replaced by the cheep, cheep, cheep of new chicks as another year progresses through the seasons.
16th May (B)
© David Oakes 2013
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A lovely writeup sir. I so much love the voice. An awesome poetry sir! I am a loyal follow sir……………x
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I’m so happy to see the wonderful sunshine in your photos, and all of the greenery..what a nice walkie you took us all on. I feel refreshed.
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I hope your nice weather stays for a while this time–I can feel the new pulses of life. Your shot of the sycamore leaves is special for me–I know many consider them invasive where you are, but not so here. We have two, and we absolutely love them!
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There does seem to be the start of a small change in the scientific view about sycamore. But as I have always believed…science must be respected but needs applying with good amount of common sense.
We have all fingers and toes crossed that the sun will last
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Bluebells. Haven’t seen them here anymore since my childhood and I’m soon to be 64, so you know that was a LONG time ago. :-)) Last week, I found a photo with Google images of an English wood scene with lots of Bluebells. A very inviting path through the middle, meandering into the distance and disappearing in a sea of Bluebells in the birght Spring sunshine. Trees in their spring greens and I can ‘hear’ the birds singing, the squirrels rushing up and down the trees, the woodpecker hammering and the little creatures ruffling in the undergrowth where there still many dead leaves from last Autumn. These last days that is all I can see of nature as it’s very cold here (10-13º en when the sun comes out [IF] only 15-17º out of the wind. And it rains and rains and rains,,, Whitsunday looks fine though. I am thinking of cycling to the garden centre tomorrow of a small leaved Hosta, David. Bought two plastic baskets and I will put a binliner in them, make holes in them en fill them with soil. Then plant your hostas’s in one and carrots and lettuce in the other one. And yes, my fingers will be crossed to hope for more warm and sunny days ahead. 😀
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Have fun and I hope the Hosta flourishes
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