Spring 2023

Most Springs I am in good shape, this one I'm recovering from an operation. As usual the Spring post will be done, but over a longer period of time. Nature seems to be having a difficult time weatherwise as periods of cold were interspersed with warmer times and a very dry February. March had record rain came down, so there's no telling how this season will develop.

The leaves are beginning.

A few flowers have begun to appear.
Took a lot of Photoshop work for this.

The rain kept coming and all the trails are a sea of mud and water.

Blackthorn trees—notice size of couple walking through.

Normally these flower out if a freeze happens, here in Enland it's called a Blackthorn winter. Trouble is we've had about 5 of them. I walked here a few days previously and no flowers were out, a short freeze happened and the blooms burst forth. There are least 100 of the trees here and it was like walking through a tunnel of white.

Where forests rustle, tree on tree,
And sing their silent songs to me;
Where pathways meet and pathways part,—
To walk with Nature heart by heart
(Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Egyptian Goose with it's gosling in background nest

Something in Spring, but not the normal.

Ran across a film shoot, near where I live, in April. The director and I had a short chat, while the crew were setting up the camera. The movie was mainly taking place in a house, which used to belong to a friend who did some serious color lab work for TV and the like.

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Now I hope to get out on the road again.

Apr 22, 2023