A selection of photos from my deep-deep archive (10th May 2017) to bring a little colour and sun and freshness into our lives. Enjoy
10th May 2017
🔼 Stitchwort… in company with vetch 🔽
10th May 2017
🔽 Cuckoo Flower aka Lady’s Smock
10th May 2017
10th May 2017
Two prickly bushes! 🔼 Hawthorn, flowers show it to be cross-pollinated, from both pink and white forms 🔽 Holly, gearing up for another year
10th May 2017
🔽 I should have labelled these 3 as all the ‘H’s, for this is the rampant hop
10th May 2017
🔽 In the churchyard at South Walsham is this finial to a headstone. Couldn’t resist it. How easily we humans see faces where they’re not intended
10th May 2017
🔽Butterflies…
10th May 2017
🔼 An overwintered Tortoiseshell, a little worse for wear! 🔽 A White, but whether large or small I’m not sure
10th May 2017
10th May 2017
🔼 My very first photo of a Holly Blue taken from a distance, zoomed in. Can you see it? It’s very well camouflaged 🔽 An Orange-Tip. These are devilishly difficult to photograph, they just won’t stay still, always flitting. So this was a magical moment
10th May 2017
That’s all for now. Hope you enjoyed, and you agree that it’s good to see the sunlit colours of spring. Spring 2026 will come again, soon.
crispina kemp 
Wonderful photos! Lovely to see spring whilst we are under mounds of snow (well, I am!). That orange tip is magnificent!
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Thanks, Dale. Since I’d no choice but to dig into the archives, I thought, Let’s make it sunny cos we all could do with it
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Absolutely!
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The names some of these plants have! You sent me on a deep dive to find what I had written to that statue in the past! Bwahhh!! Memories…… https://violetslentz.home.blog/2020/02/10/the-look-of-love/
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I had used that shot before. And why not, it’s so fantastic!
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Thanks for that link. I needed that laugh. We were on a roll that day.
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I thought you might get a kick out of that!
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I did. Yes. Thank you. Brilliant. Some memories need reviving!
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I’m so impressed Crispina. You not only know all the plants but the butterflies too. Amazing pics
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It’s my thing, nature photography. Though if I don’t know a name I’ll look it up. And I’m not so good with fungi. But then, few people are
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Here comes the sun! Such happy pix!
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