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Aspects of spring
Apr. 6th, 2023 02:45 pmYesterday being my father's birthday, we paid our annual visit of remembrance to Finchale Priory. Tuesday has been sunny with blue skies, but yesterday was grey and damp. I'm sure that in other years we've seen festoons of daffodils in bloom around the ruins, but this year there was only a scattering of flowers, and the branches are bare:
In Cocken woods across the river, the wood anemones are beginning to bloom, but the flowers were all closed (I didn't know they did that, but apparently so). A couple of clumps of violets looked very bedraggled - perhaps the weather is to blame for that, too - certainly the river is very high, and flowing swiftly.
For the first time this year, when we set off after dinner to walk down to the pub for the quiz, it was not yet dark. Maybe not daylight, but certainly dusk. We may have been a little earlier than usual, but not more than a quarter hour. Perhaps spring really is here.
In Cocken woods across the river, the wood anemones are beginning to bloom, but the flowers were all closed (I didn't know they did that, but apparently so). A couple of clumps of violets looked very bedraggled - perhaps the weather is to blame for that, too - certainly the river is very high, and flowing swiftly.
For the first time this year, when we set off after dinner to walk down to the pub for the quiz, it was not yet dark. Maybe not daylight, but certainly dusk. We may have been a little earlier than usual, but not more than a quarter hour. Perhaps spring really is here.
