(no subject)
with the lockdown and the continuing restrictions - which are still badly needed - it's been five months since i went anywhere purely to look at the plants - the wild flowers, and the trees growing in the lake district; that's just under half of the year 2020, most of the spring and all of the summer - almost all of growing, flowering, tree-blossoming here in the northern hemisphere gone for the year.
but, after a reminder of what's been going on all the same, despite our very real troubles, it's just coming into the season of fruiting shrubs and trees - it looks like it could be a good season coming for conkers, and it's already getting into brambles, and well into rosehips and wild briar hips - and soon, all those imported sycamore ''helicopters'', and is it plane trees' keys in bunches? - to keep an eye out for, before the toadstool season gets under way.
one of the two most beautiful - and variety-filled - seasons in the year to come, just starting.