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We’re not quite as far along as we should be in the season yet. But the apple blossoms are delicately starting to peak out of their grey-green leaf covers outside my bedroom window, and my daffodils are up and nodding.
She’s on her way then….with lots more to follow 🙂
Love these two photos and your poee! Beautiful spring via your lens and poem.
Thanks Amy, I think spring is in full flow, covering every inch of earth in fresh green leaves and delicate pretty flowers 🙂
Oh to think of the things they have seen and gossiped about on that riverbank! ‘Confetti blossom’ is a perfect description – love it!
Thanks, confetti blossom gossips are the best….passing whispered rumours petal by petal 🙂
Lovely!
Such a beautiful scene, Seonaid. Your words made me wonder what they were gossiping about. Maybe with all that confetti around, a spring wedding is in the offing. 😕
All those pretty white flowers do make me think of weddings….and fairies….and fairy tale woods! Who knows what the were saying among those nodding heads 🙂
Fantastic title and the words along with it 🙂 and beautiful shots too!
Thanks Hanne, they just looked so busy, crowded together on the river banks….and so pretty:-)
lol!! Fantastic view, for some imagination never leaves. Love it! 🙂
Lovely photograph – the wild garlic is so pretty en masse, but after uprooting it from the garden, I find myself every now and then, when I am out walking, getting the feeling I need to bend over and pick up handfuls of it by its roots. Then I see a patch and take a photograph, as it’s really a very varied plant and good to look at up close as well. And wow, doesn’t it spread, it’s like the snow of April.
I love the way it bursts through the brown winter earth in a fast wave….clothing the woodland floor in just a few days….and then the pretty white flowers pop out. And of course I use it in food, so good for the liver, and so tasty!
I wonder what they were, but don’t tell me, I like the mystery. A perfect haiku 🙂
Glad you like the Haiku Gilly…..there’s so much action bursting through at this time of year…..I do love a good spring gossip 🙂
Oh, you just missed them! There was a crowd of fairies just there about a second ago!
Ah you spotted them….they do love playing chase in the wild garlic!
Lovely spring images 🙂
Thanks Sue, it’s such a generous season, all lush growth and pretty flowers!
Lush growth for sure! 🙂
Ohh, I want to be there, it looks beautiful.
It really is Lynne, and those lime greens refresh the mind and body so well. A real breath of green air!
The sweetness and exuberance of spring!
She is so generous, and so beautiful. Very hard to resist….so I don’t even try 🙂
We all like to be seduced…:-)
BTW, I just did a post on bluebells, but with a twist: http://beautyalongtheroad.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/an-open-letter-to-the-people-who-camped-by-the-river/
Beautiful, beautiful – I sure love seeing green and not white. 🙂
That lush spring green is hard to resist, so soothing on the eyes and nerves 🙂
Smile! D
How lovely to know I made you smile all the way across the ocean 🙂
Loved your spring lambs….
I contemplate what the color of the stream was 300 hundred years ago..I wonder if it was clear, or blue
Oh no it’s always been this slightly rusty colour…..there is iron ore in the rocks and soil here. It’s clean and fresh though, full of fish and otters, and frequented by kingfishers and herons to name just a few. The dogs always enjoy a good drink from the river towards the end of their walk 🙂
thank you for sharing, it is stunning.. to think all these was created for us to appreciate.. for us to marvel, for us to enjoy.. I am thankful.
Indeed nature is a wonderful place to rest, to contemplate and to recover balance 🙂
I love your photography and your poems. I visited Scotland twenty years ago, so I’ll have to look at a map to see where you are located. My family is from Conwy, Wales, so I loved exploring the area where some of my family originated. I live in Washington State in the U.S. so I find your countryside very similar to some of ours. Beautiful! Thank you for the lovely post.
Thanks so much, it’s lovely to have our memories stirred isn’t it. I live just to the south and east of Edinburgh if that helps with locating us on a map 🙂
We are so lucky to live in such a lush and beautiful country, and I believe Washington is beautifully green and rolling too. Your ancestors must have felt at home when they landed so many hundreds of miles from home across the ocean in familiar feeling landscapes.
Seonaid, I loved the Edinburgh area. I was driving as I adapted better to your roads. I SO wanted to visit Edinburgh and see the yarn shops or sweaters as I knit. However, the traffic, not knowing where I wanted to go, and the lack of parking scared us so badly that we kept on driving until we found a smaller town. I was so disappointed. I didn’t find a sweater to purchase until I was back at the Heathrow airport… at least I came home with a sweater even if it wasn’t purchased in Scotland.
Areas of Scotland truly look like Washington. I so very much enjoyed my time in England, Scotland, and Wales. I loved the scenery and the people. You live in a beautiful area and country.