Showing posts with label Bluebells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bluebells. Show all posts

Thursday, 1 May 2014

It's Bluebell Time and May Blossom

Definitely a day for a walk in the woods. Here we are at Westleigh Heights about 25 minutes drive from home and it is another world of acres of ancient woodland.


Bluebells in every direction as for as the eye can see.


The perfume is overwhelming and the interesting thing is that there is no reaction of watery eyes or anything so one can just enjoy breathing in the deep scent.





This is a well managed ancient woodland where everything is left to rot creating a great environment for wildlife as well as giving the soil great nutrients














Added to the pleasure there is a Pub opposite the woods so after our walk Cod & Chips sounded good. First this year. 



Mid-afternoon the Pub  side is quiet but the restaurant side is very busy


When we arrived it was warm and sunny and this area was busy too but not now as we are leaving. The sun has disappeared and their is a slight chill in the air.




The Pub and Retaurant


and the road home



It's also that time of year when the roadsides are full of
May blossom 


Hope you enjoyed your walk. I took over 80 photographs buyt enough here for the post.



Saturday, 2 May 2009

A Walk Amongst The Bluebells

It's Bluebell time in England and I did not want to miss the flowers now that they are fully out so decided to have a walk in the woods before lunch this morning. I remember as a child picking armfuls of them and taking them home but they are now an endangered species so picking them is against the law.

I invite you to acompany me on this walk - you won't be disappointed. I just wish I could capture the delicately scented perfume that surrounds us as we walk through the flowers.

We arrive at Westleigh Heights and stop to capture the River Thames which is looking very hazy in the morning sun.
We are going to walk across this field on the left which usually has cows in but none there today.

We enter the woods



and our senses are immediately heightened
by the beautiful perfume



















We walk the many different paths




Yours truly, wishing she could pick just one





Where the sun catches them they
look like a haze in the distance




















Mixed with Pink Campion



and White Vetch

































We have now left the woods behind
and on our way back to the car
pass fields of yellow Buttercups
Hope you enjoyed