Before & now.

Changeable weather: even our visiting Pheasant is taking cover.

Finding the Mother Tree.

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From Wiki:
Simard asserts that healthy forests centre on a matriarch tree that acts as a nexus of nutrient distribution that shares these nutrients among other trees of the same or different ages and species that are chemically and physically linked together by an expansive mycorrhizal network. Simard faced ridicule during her younger years; however her research became “critical to addressing problems in the timber industry” that led to reforms in sustainable forestry.

Hidden pond.

A cold morning.

Summer remembered.

Old tree trunks No2.

Old tree trunks.

Bridge shadows.

A leaf.

Storm damage.

Storm damage – it must have made a lot of noise when it came down.

A Swan on her nest.

A Swan and her eggs.
Is it possible that summer is here at long last ?

A late Spring – No3.

The weather is still changeable, it was lovely and sunny two hours ago, but prior to that I got soaked while out shopping. Thunder & lightning with hailstones in the middle of May !!, the sun has a lot to answer for with its sunspot activity, only went for cat food.

Hay-ho, good excuse for a glass of vino and the third book of Freya Stark’s auto biography.

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A late Spring – No2.

Spring is here – No2.

A late Spring.

Spring is here at long last and with luck, no more morning frost.

A tangle of branches.

An Ent on the move.

Caught an Ent on the move.

Nature will have its way.

The light.

Lopsided fence.

This fence has seen better days.

A frozen stream.

The snow has gone now, but nice while it lasted.

Nut & Bolt.

Nut & bolt

I spy.

I spy with my little eye.

Fence post with snow.

No snow falling for the last two days: I remember an old saying among hill farming shepherds from when I was knee high to a grasshopper “if the snow hangs around for more than a couple of days, there will be more” so it’s probably going to stay cold for a while yet.