Monday 15 March 2021

More Blossom and Blue Carpets

 After a super active Saturday, Sunday was a very lazy day indeed and only today did I get out for a proper walk, a two hour stroll around the park and the cemetery again.

During the day off, a lot seems to have happened nature-wise, perhaps triggered by the milder and brighter weather today. All the trees in the park orchard are now in blossom, and a chiff chaff could be heard singing from an invisible vantage point somewhere within. 

A butterfly fluttered by too, my first of the year. I didn't get a close look at it, but the colour was suggestive of small tortoiseshell, or perhaps a comma. A few honeybees were at work in the blossom, but not as many as I would have thought, and none were willing to pose for a photograph. 

Over in the cemetery, the crocuses continue to decline slowly, but there long lines of daffodils along the paths, and beautiful blue carpets of glory in the snows. 

Si

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6 comments:

  1. I don't know those blue flowers at all Si - are they wood anemone?

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  2. Things change very quickly over the next few weeks and the same walk will not be the same a week later. Well done with the Chiffchaff I will try to get out locally on Friday to try and find one
    Keep well

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  3. I don't think I've ever seen glory of the snows before, the only squill I know is that which grows on the coasts far up north (particularly Shetland)

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  5. Now a very weird thing happened, just the day after saying I didn't remember ever seeing Glory of the Snows I've found it in bloom in our local cemetery! Wow! Thanks for this blog post, otherwise i wouldn't have known what it was!

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