Please forgive me dear reader, for a whole month has passed with no comment from me, and yet it has been the month of fastest seasonal change yet! Now, as I sit here in the campsite at Eric’s in Tremadog, The slopes of the hill nearby ( where I am slowly relearning to trad climb again) are carpeted in the almost unreal bright olive green of new Oak leaf and flower, and everywhere around me the trees have burst forth into leaf, singing verdant praises to rising sap and sun. A pair of Ravens are honking like geese as they playfully chase one another around the crags, and I am surrounded by the sweet morning song of the birds.
Hawthorn is well in leaf now and already beginning to flower, and the first pink Campion flowers are appearing in the woods, along with other flowers bearing exotic sounding names; Alkanet, Archangel, Ransoms, Lords and Ladies; all vying to grasp the last of the Spring sun before the leaf burst closes in and blankets the forest floor in shade once again.
Argh….WordPress just decided to delete half of my post, so I’ll re write it soon, but just to add that I’ve seen my first Swallow of the year now (4th April, Swanage).
Notes from Nature 