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The First of….and Last of. A Real Spring Week

The trees are still bare, just a hint of bud and leaves. But at the end of what has been the first real week of Spring with sunshine and blue skies and temperatures reaching highs of 21c we have seen a marked changed to our surroundings.

Daffodils are fading, whilst Tulips are dropping their petals on their way out for another year.

But we can welcome the first of this seasons Primroses, Cowslips, Aubrietia and Blossom….we even had our first Butterfly – A Peacock.

Yep, overall not a bad Spring week and after the increased warmth and a moist soil things should start to rocket away….

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11th April (C) David Oakes 2015

6 thoughts on “The First of….and Last of. A Real Spring Week”

fluidicthought says:

April 11, 2015 at 6:58 am

Beautiful Photographs 🙂

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Jo Woolf says:

April 11, 2015 at 7:48 am

Beautiful. Love the goldfinch especially!

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1. davidoakesimages says:
  
  April 11, 2015 at 8:45 am
  
  Thank you….We seem to have a good few of the Finches around at the moment (Green and Gold)
  
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mojoshawn says:

April 11, 2015 at 8:40 am

Wow!

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Leya says:

April 11, 2015 at 10:29 am

Beautiful spring gallery – we arre not quite there yet…but soon. They say 18-19 degrees C this weekend.

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1. davidoakesimages says:
  
  April 11, 2015 at 11:51 am
  
  It will come
  
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