Everything is lush; the lane is coming into the best part of the year. I am besotted with green, tiny buds coming into flower, light as it illuminates petals and unfurling leaves. I wonder sometimes how nature can survive our bleak winters and the onslaught of chemicals and factory farming? Today I realised that I needn’t worry too much. Mother Nature is way ahead of me, as usual. The verges are full of surprises, flowers are abundant and even foxgloves are bursting to come into bloom.
I know there are bigger issues to be concerned about, but isn’t each small patch a microcosm of the whole? When it comes to the eco system, I can be like an anxious mother, but today, as I am bathed in dappled green and sunny optimism, all is well with my brood……
I am totally besotted with your world, as well! Love these beautiful images of bursting growth and green and sunlight … thank you.
Thank you dear Susan xx
Such beauty ! Your images are breathtaking and the spring is gorgeous. How not to bath in optimism, while following your foosteps in this enchanted world ? Thank you.
Ah thank you Amelie…..I imagine we are both doing much the same things whenever we get a chance, but this has to be the most amazing time to do it!
Oh, magnificent and the bee!!
Thanks Diana! I am counting the bees. Each day there are a few more, but I’m beginning to wonder if I should keep some hives just to add to their conservation…..
your bees appreciate flowers (and water in summer for ours)
Hives are, hmm how to put this tactfully, can be, like battery chickens or veal crates.
For people to harvest honey, not for the bees welfare.
The bee in your picture is probably a solitary bee.
Nesting in wood or in the earth depending on which it is.
I definitely need to learn more! I have discovered that they are very gentle for one thing….but I still can’t tell one from another. Not interested in the honey really more concerned about the species…..will pursue!
http://ujubee.com/
This is about research on our South African bees.
First for conservation and welfare of the bees.
And only secondly about honey production.
Maybe one of those insect houses – with holes drilled in a block of untreated wood?
http://www.clayandlimestone.com/2009/10/when-bumble-bees-fall-asleep.html
Hope and new beginnings; the eternal message Nature reminds us off, over and again, isn’t it? Thank you so much for sharing your world with us, Catherine.
Hello Yota! Thank you for that. “The eternal message….” that captures it beautifully :~)
Spring has been one lush moment after another here on the coast. The dry season has begun, a bit early this year. There is concern for the bees and people are putting up little clay and concrete homes. I have already seen more bees this year than last and they seem to be mostly around the foxgloves. Your images are beautiful.
Thank you so much! I have enjoyed watching the ferns this year and how green everything is. We have had wonderful weather….(for Ireland) and the timing of it has been perfect. You have to love foxgloves!!!