After a lazy, blank sort of day yesterday, I started off today - after waking up from a long and wonderful dream about surveying buildings on a Scottish island - with a 7km walk, enjoying the flowers in the cemetery, and then walking across the Grange Road fields, taking in the periwinkles before having a well earned cup of tea at where else but Rumbles cafe.
The afternoon found me out on my old bicycle, chugging along on the Cotham-Thorpe route, seeing if I could find that cattle egret again on the dyke near Thorpe village. It wasn't, but there were plenty of buzzards about, all of them desperately looking for thermals to soar on, and finding none despite it being a lovely bright day.
One individual though about posing for me on an electricity pylon, but flew off as soon as he heard my camera turn on, I swear.
The cemetery is now carpeted on purple and white crocuses, which are now at their peak there. It feels that the cold snap has slowed spring down a little but, but everything still seems to be rather early. Nettles and red dead nettles are now in flower, and I noticed the trees had a strange red budding going on towards the bottom of their trunks.
A lot of colour around today, and I feel refreshed for having been out in it.
Si
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Wild flowers, really brilliant.
ReplyDeleteWonderful shots of the flowers in the cemetery. I especially like the 2nd image.
ReplyDeleteThe flowers are looking really good just now.
ReplyDeleteThe crocuses are stunning!
ReplyDeleteIt does seem like the beginning of "real" spring now, despite the cold.
Cor, those crocuses are glorious! What a sight. Frogs are beginning to spawn here (a bit earlier than previous years).
ReplyDeleteSuch lovely photos of cheerful spring flowers!
ReplyDeleteThe orange-yellow crocuses are my favourites.
What a beautiful display of crocuses - they look stunning. Lovely to see so many other Spring flowers too :)
ReplyDeleteA wonderful selection of spring flowers. At least the recent colder weather will make them last longer this year.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much everyone for your kind comments, yes it was very pretty there yesterday. Squill is now out, but still rather swamped by crocuses.
ReplyDeleteYou almost persuade me from your photographs Si, that Spring does begin tomorrow. It does seem to have really come in around Newark - notso here in North Yorkshire.
ReplyDeleteWonderful set of photos all the flowers look stunning...
ReplyDeleteAmanda xx
A lovely spring set of pics! What strange red budding - and I love those crocus views.
ReplyDeleteThanks Pam, Amanda and Caroline! Bluebells now starting to poke through.
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