This month, last year, our TV News Bulletins showed scenes of Farmers standing in wet muddy fields bemoaning the winter snows and rains that had left their crops rotting in the mud. Most early crops including Oil Seed Rape were to be ploughed back into the ground once weather conditions improved. Advance forward a year and what a difference there is in those same fields. The trees and hedges have yet to leaf but the vibrant yellow flowers of the Oil Seed Rape is an indicator that this year they should have a bumper harvest….
And it is another year on for this Ancient Oak. It may well be well over a 1000 years old but the buds are bursting indicating that there is still lots of life yet in the misshapen, gnarled but still sturdy trunk…..
15th April
© David Oakes 2014
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