Spring

Posted on June 13, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1966, day length, Equator, Forests, Green, Growth, Jungle, Plants, Spring, TimeLeave a comment

What is your favorite season of year? Why?

When Aqualegia (grannies bonnets) and Daffodils and Tulips flower. When the winter rains and frosts abate. When insects start collecting nectar and pollen and the sun rises earlier and sets later. Spring is my favourite season.

Spring refreshes the world, a fizz of flowers shoot up and cover the ground. Leaves sprout and burst from buds, trees are clothed in green again. Not the dark green of summer leaves, but the pale lime greens of new growth.

Not everyone has seasons, towards the equator the day length stays around the same length. The growing season is continuous and forests and jungles can grow to huge sizes. Unfortunately that means that loggers and farmers destroy virgin jungles by removing the trees and replacing them with palm oil plants or growing other crops such as corn and maize. This is destructive and raises the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

So my answer is that I love Spring, it helps me keep track of time. It is enchanting and beautiful. I’m glad I live somewhere that changes, even if it is only for a short time.

My mind…

Posted on May 19, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Autumn acrylic on canvas, Fine Art, Painting, Spring, Styles, Techniques2 Comments

An old painting, Autumn and Spring…. Acrylic on canvas. A mixture of styles ideas. I’m not sure whether I will ever do another one like this. I am happy I did it, but it feels like a one off.

Magnolia

Posted on May 8, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Blossom, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Growth, Magnolia, pink petals, Poem, Poetry, Spring, Summer7 Comments

Beautiful pink fingers

Reach for the sky

Magnificent Magnolia

Giving me joy

Seen on a warm day

In early May

Life changes quickly

Soon they will die

Then the leaves come

Shade the ground

Summer has arrived then.

Wait for spring

To come again.

Odd fungi

Posted on May 2, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dead tree, Environment, Fungi, Garden, Life, Nature, Photos, shaggy inkcaps?, SpringLeave a comment

These are growing at the base of an old dead tree. I have no idea what they are. There is another lot a bit closer in to the tree which may be small shaggy inkcaps

All around everything is coming to life. I will post more photos later of blossom and bluebells (sadly the Spanish type which hybridises with English ones) but we keep them as they were from my grandma’s garden. We also have patches of wild garlic coming into flower….

Mossy

Posted on April 30, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blossom, Buds, Gardening, Green, Leaves, Life, Moss, Poem, Poetry, seasons, SpringLeave a comment

End of April,

the moss is greening nicely

Moist air, no sun

Cool showers..

Vitamin D

What’s that?

Buds burst

and leaves open fully

Spring sprang last week

Next flowers

Soon, fruit.

Planning

Posted on April 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Design, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Life, outdoor gardening, Planning, Plants, Spectrum, Spring, SummerLeave a comment

Now’s the time to order our hanging baskets for the year. The lady that puts them together asks me what colours I would like. Usually I don’t specify what theme I want but I’m definitely going for a rainbow theme this year. I think because there are so many different flowers and shapes and colours that would really brighten the yard. Last year was mainly red white and green so I bought in other flowers to broaden the spectrum.

Going out of the back door and seeing all this colour lifts my spirits. I usually order them and then collect them 6 to 8 weeks later. It’s a bit expensive but I have never been able to grow baskets as beautiful as hers. The summer arrives and I bring the baskets home. Then we have a riot of colour until late Autumn.

Bench view

Posted on March 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Horizon, Leaves, Life, Photo, Sky, Spring, Time, Trees, View, Weather, WindLeave a comment

I wonder how long it will take for the leaves to come on these trees in the park. Then the view of the horizon will be covered for another six months. The hills in the distance will be gone. My hubby, sitting on the bench before me will be in shade during the morning and in light in the afternoon.

The clouds will drop their rain and the leaves of the trees unfold. Every day they will take in sunlight, until the temperature drops and the light levels fall. Then the wind will blow and the leaves, that have now rurned to brown and orange, will fly from the trees and uncover the view again…

Spring forward

Posted on March 25, 2023March 29, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged British summer time, Change, Clocks, Daylight saving time, Spring, spring forwardLeave a comment

The clocks in the UK go forward tonight so we lose an hour in bed. The good things is that there are less accidents in the summer. When I was a child in the 70’s I think? They bought in three years where the clocks didn’t go back in autumn. It was darker in the morning but children who were tired in the evening were going home from school in brighter light. They had less accidents according to Rospa (royal society for the prevention of accidents).

The idea of extending British Summer time was not taken up because the sun didn’t come up in Scotland until after 10am I think. It was suggested again in the nineties but was not accepted by parliament. It also saves energy because people use less lighting and heating. Maybe the idea should be revisited.

Renewed

Posted on March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Fresh, Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, renewal, renewed, Spring, Thinking, WinterLeave a comment

I was sad to see winter

I want life to be renewed

Green and gold leaves

Pink blossom

Blue sky with fluffy clouds

Pour on a wash of yellow

Daffodils and tulips

Give me Spring!

Now.

Lesser Celandine

Posted on March 22, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged daisy like, Environment, Gardening, Lesser celandine, Nature, Plants, Spring, YellowLeave a comment

One of the plants that appears in Spring, this is lesser Celandine. It has mid green shiny leaves and yellow and white daisy like flowers. This plant is one of the things that used to be on a website where people recorded when things appeared in the Spring, like butterflies, moths, flowers, tree blossom for example. It was a citizen science project. I don’t remember what it was called.

Lesser Celandine spreads by little bulbs (bulbils) that can stick to shoes or animals feet. It’s pretty, but if you get it in your garden it can spread like mad. I’m not sure if animals van eat it, it just looks cheery in Spring.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Spring