Practically Perfect

This moment, right here, was practically perfect in every way:

Practically Perfect 28/04/15

Wild Bluebells

Bluebells

Ne'er have I seen such beauty

Field of bluebells ‘neath golden sun

Interspersed with tree-trunk pillars

Lovely forest, woodland spun.

Bluebells

Exquisite and breathtaking beauty

Unsullied by the hands of man

Simply there for the heart's enjoyment

According to nature's best-laid plan.

Bluebells

Splendid and arresting beauty

Awesome scene of sheer delight

Bold images of wild bluebells

Touched by rays of golden sunlight.

Poem by Walterrean Salley

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wild-bluebells/

And frosts are slain and flowers begotten..

"And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins."

Algernon Charles Swinburne  (1837–1909)
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)

Read more: Poetry for Spring http://www.infoplease.com/spot/springquotes1.html#ixzz3YF4seyEv

11th April, 2015

  White Blossom 21st April, 2015

Pink Blossom 24th April, 2015

My favourite is the White Blossom. It looks to me as though it is falling from the sky onto the tree.

A Parched Summer's Day in the Middle of Spring...

On Wednesday 15th April, 2015 the temperature here reached about 25°, which is high in England's Summer let alone Spring! With little rain this month, the ground was dry and parched:

A heart made from two horseshoes...

(This horseshoe photo was actually taken a few days later but matched the theme, so I sneaked it in!)

A Wooden Heart

Elvis Presley sang that he didn't have a wooden heart.. Perhaps he could have had this one... 

A Boy and his Shadow

A perfect story to go with the last picture is http://www.stuartstories.com/stories/boyandshadow.html. Enjoy!

Sunset Through the Bedroom Window IV

Dusk was beautiful last night. Another sunset view from the bedroom window:

23rd April, 2015

Snow February, 2015

I can't believe I didn't post these pictures of the snow in February, 2015. It lasted less than a day but was beautiful while it lasted.

Snow Laden Skies over Lambourn

Bare Branches dressed in Snow

Winter Wonderland

Snow Laden Tree

Crisp Snow Path

Lambourn Enshrouded in Snow

Larry of course has to make an appearance in this last one. He's becoming quite famous!

A Sea of Flowers

These have the most unfortunate name... and smell. I learned too late that if you let your dogs run through them they get sticky and stink to high heaven! But a field of rapeseed flowers does look pretty impressive..

Rapeseed field 

Larry getting some more photo action

This is the last time the dogs will be off the lead through this field for a while!

Eleven days later the rapeseed is nearly as tall as me and this is my view to the left as I walk through the field:

30th April, 2015

Bluebells... Four Days Later in the Woods

The budding bluebell photo in the last post was taken on 14th April, 2015. There were a few buds scattered here and there in the Bluebell Woods. Four days later the Bluebell Woods look more like this:

Bluebell Woods

Bluebell Woods

Nature can be an amazing and beautiful force. This is just the beginning too. In the not too distant future this will be a sea of bluebells!

I just have to add this photo too. Larry and bluebells, two of my favourite things:

Larry and Bluebells

Bluebells are coming...

Bluebells

"There is a silent eloquence

In every wild bluebell

That fills my softened heart with bliss

That words could never tell."

From "The Bluebell" by Anne Brontë

Star Light, Star Bright

Star light, star bright,

The first star I see tonight;

I wish I may, I wish I might,

Have the wish I wish tonight.

On nights like this, 13th April 2015, I wish I had a proper camera and not just my phone. This star was HUGE. It was twinkling and had points as if a child had drawn it. The photo is ok in it's own right I suppose but if it had captured the star as I saw it, it would have been the photo of the year!