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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