Aspects of spring

[shewhomust]

Yesterday 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.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Severn's up again here too. There's been so much rain!

[shewhomust]

I hadn't noticed it being particularly wet hereabouts - but apparently so!

[oracne]

I love the picture of the bare tree framed by the arch.

[shewhomust]

Thank you. I am notoriously fond of photographing things framed in arches...

[sovay]

certainly the river is very high, and flowing swiftly.

That's a lovely picture.

[shewhomust]

Thank you. I was pleased that the focus just about worked!

[athenais]

I was surprised that the spring wasn't as advanced in Dublin as it is in Belfast when I was in both cities last week. They're not too far apart, but I guess Belfast is more sheltered somehow. Nothing much was blooming in Dublin, but the tulip trees/magnolias and camellias were all in bloom in Belfast, it was lovely.

[shewhomust]

I'm looking forward to seeing the photos ...

[anef]

Magnolias are so beautiful!