In
the Spring, I always reckon that it is my favourite time of the year because of the
amazing fresh greens of new foliage and because of all the wildflowers. Granted, I say the same thing in Summer
(green leaves, blue skies, swallows), Autumn (colours, mellowness), and Winter (horizontal
light, hoar frost, icy sunsets…).
We
have a number of bluebell woods near here, including one that has a lovely riverside
boardwalk and I know of one woodland edge that was carpeted in stitchwort last
year. Unfortunately, the latter was on
private land and I couldn’t get a decent photo from the public side of the
fence. Such is life!
Anyway, at the edge of a different woodland further along my route, just as you enter a particular clearing, there is this breathtaking swathe of a mixture of stitchwort and bluebells. A little further on, there are a few early purple orchids as well. There are deer as well, and they and I do the 'if I keep still enough you can't see me' thing. Until lockdown, I had never walked this particular route; it is one of my favourites now.
Again,
I took this photo with a phone camera (Samsung A23) rather than with a
dedicated camera. Many of my photos,
including this one, are opportunistic rather than planned and set up. I really ought to take a Gorilla tripod
(other brands are available) with me and experiment with it.
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