I love the moment in Spring when everything is just on the brink of bursting into leaf. The shoots, buds and new leaves are so many different shades and often there is a warm haze of purple and pink over the woodlands.
The new leaves are different colours on each tree and bush and only in Autumn does the countryside show such a variety of tones.
On my wanderings this weekend, I tried to capture as many different greens as I could find- such a pleasure!
The verges are changed from their bedraggled winter dun colour to a rich new green where;
The new leaves are different colours on each tree and bush and only in Autumn does the countryside show such a variety of tones.
On my wanderings this weekend, I tried to capture as many different greens as I could find- such a pleasure!
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| Horse Chestnut |
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| Hawthorn |
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| Oak |
The verges are changed from their bedraggled winter dun colour to a rich new green where;
" Weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush"
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| Ransoms |
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| Bracken |
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| Queen Anne's Lace |
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| mainly Blackberry |
Bluebells and stitchwort gleam against their background of grass and beech
Patterns of ferns and a Beech avenue
Everything was glowing in the sunlight
Wheat fields and far hills are green
And the tree line is, for this short space of time, a mix of so many shades and hues, before it settles down to the uniform green of summer
" Proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing."
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing."
