A small selection from the enormous amount of photos I took this day. Please enjoy
1st April 2025
Two beautiful markers of spring 🔼 forget-me-knot 🔽 and primrose
1st April 2025
🔽 And not forgetting the white violet
1st April 2025
1st April 2025
🔼 I have a thing of seeing faces in trees – I’m saying no more
1st April 2025
🔼 Looking up, it’s pussy willow 🔽 Looking down it’s dog’s mercury. Do not touch, it is poisonous
1st April 2025
1st April 2025
🔼 Sycamore, not my most favourite tree but I confess to liking it when the sun shines like this through its young leaves
1st April 2025
Two less common plants that flower in late March/early April 🔼 butterbur and 🔽 few-flowered garlic
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1st April 2025
While some wild flowers are less commonly found 🔼 the celandine is rampant in carpeting every spare space and 🔽 the white blossomed blackthorn lines every lane
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Finally 🔽 this peacock butterfly decided to grace our day, resting while it soaked up the sun and allowing us to capture the perfect picture of spring
1st April 2025
I hope you enjoyed this wonderful spring day
More next week!
crispina kemp 
Oh! wow Crispina these photos are beautiful 💜
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Thank you, Willow. I rejoice in the return of our wayside flowers
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Truly beautiful
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Lovely photos Crispina, you -and we – are treated indeed 🙂
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Thank you, Andrea. It’s almost like the flower calendar begins here 💖
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Wow! You had quite the week.
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It was a good one, as that particular walk often is
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