What has struck me this year is the profusion of blooms everywhere. Everything seems to be really healthy!
I've had blackthorn in flower and bluebells for a week or so, and banks of primroses and violets, drifts of lesser celandine, white heather and pulmonaria, where I didn't know I had so many!
Butterflies, including a peacock the other day, green woodpeckers shreaking with laughter, all the other birds flying by with huge mossy moustaches, toads singing love songs, jays flashing by like flying rainbows, rooks holding conferences on the lawns. It's all a bit like a Disney cartoon here.
Plus amazing sunsets, and dawn choruses to stop you in your tracks.
Wonderful. Spring in technicolour.
And today misting fine rain covering it all with diamonds.
