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The merry month of May

The joyfu; explosion of   colourr and texture, vitality and energy, confirm the arrival of Spring.  Too often we pass such a sight without a second thought  –  and yet there is so much happening!

‘There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow’

This picture is of the sheep field next to my garden.  Yes, it is a meadow and yes, there is a haze  –  partly golden but also with a pronounced pink tinge.  The haze is created by the tiny seed heads being wafted by the breeze.  At a distance the camera is unable to focus on the smallness of the moving seeds – hence the haze.  I very much like the mystery of the resulting impressionistic image.

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The Meadow

The first of these photographs was taken about three weeks ago: the second, earlier this week in the same meadow.  Most of the flowers have gone; most of the seeds dispersed leaving, to my eyes, a delightful abstract pattern.  In just a few weeks this same field will be teeming with buttercups and a few weeks later will be full of flowering grasses, ready to be mown for hay.  It is a natural meadow  –  no artificial fertilizers here  – and has belonged to the same family for more than two centuries  But now there is a cloud on the horizon and its future is unsure.

Buttercup Meadow 2

Buttercup Meadow 2

See also Wild flower meadow, Flowering Gtass, Flowering Grasses in Sunlight, Grasses in the breeze 1, Grasses in the breeze 2, Grasses in the breeze 3

Buttercup meadow

Buttercup meadow

See also Wild flower meadow, Grasses in the breeze(1) and Flowering Grass.