Day 43

After a fews days’ break due to work and other commitments, we took advantage of a break in the weather to go for a family walk around the forest. Unfortunately, the weather didn’t stay broken for long and it started raining after about 15 minutes.  There is more an more stuff coming into flower and we are moving beyond the spring yellows

 

Just before it started raining and the sky was an angry-looking dull grey. Sunblock is not quite necessary.

 

The holly is in flower at the moment. Compared to the bright red berries the flower is quite a dull white thing.

 

There must be hundreds of types of willow and sally tree in the forest but they are mostly done flowering at this stage.  Here is one straggler

The final sign that summer is upon is that the great ash tree in our garden has finally got its leaves. It is always the last of the trees to get its leaves and tends to hang on to them right up until late October. There is no sign of the dreaded dieback disease that is supposedly going  to kill 90% of ash trees so here’s hoping.

We had a nice but slightly wet walk. Nothing too bad but it would be nice to string together a few decent days.