Little Visitor

This little hedgehog has been rustling around our little front garden for the last couple of days.  I don't know if he is supposed to be active during the day, I thought hedgehogs were mostly nocturnal.  He has a very sweet face and didn't seem to mind posing for a photograph which worries me slightly as I expected him to be more timid. I hope he is ok.

Bluebells

Bluebells, if I had to pick a favourite flower, it would be bluebells.

I've walked in this woodland several times over the last week or so watching the blue colour develop.

This year the bluebells are a little later and the ferns are growing through them. The colour is less intense, instead there is a lovely tapestry effect of blue and green.

The flowers are so graceful,

all slightly different shades of blue

and they fill the woods with a lovely soft scent.

There must be hundreds of flowers here,

a very special time of year in the wood.

The first cuckoo

I heard it this morning when I was hanging out my washing - the first cuckoo of the summer. I had a little 'run' around my patio because if you don't run when you hear the first cuckoo, you'll be lazy for the rest of the season! I don't want that to happen, I'd never get anything done.

I don't have a photo of a cuckoo, I'm not sure I've ever seen one, so the photo is Cuckoo-pint which is just appearing in the hedgerows now.  Its also called Lords and Ladies depending what part of the country you are from.

Enjoy the lovely summery weather.

Green

Green, 

fresh after the browns and greys of winter,

restorative, 

the colour associated with healing,

calming,

yet energising,

 

full of energy,

 

stored sunlight.

Leaves, green with chlorophyll, trapping and storing the sun's energy and giving us a living planet.

We must protect and cherish our wonderful green world.

Almost bluebell time

The bluebells aren't fully out in flower yet, another few days to get the full effect but already magical and well worth a walk and some photos.