A walk to the hills

I haven’t been doing much photography, especially since the lockdown began. The dry, sunny weather has made all the spring flowers come at once, it seems. So last Saturday I walked out of town through the fields to Candy Woods and Cynynion with my camera. I wanted to see and enjoy as many flowers and fresh leaves as I could: I kept stopping to enjoy the sunshine and get close to all the detail. I saw hardly any people until the last hour or so as I walked back through the ruins of Llanforda Hall towards the town.

Just out of town

Blackthorn flowers in the hedge

View from Candy Wood towards Cynynion

Candy Wood

Fallen branches

New fern frond

Edge of the stream

Laurel flower

Dead wood

Even newer fern frond

Ruined farm

Fallen pear tree

Mystic stone

Bluebells

Dry pond and oak tree

Oak in evening light

Ivy trees, Llanforda Hall

Looking back

Shy sheep

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Dramatic new leaves in the exotic border on the top terrace at Powis. Pretty sure this is an ornamental banana – looking great in the evening light last Monday.

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Back from a wonderful holiday touring round friends. Didn’t do much photography, but visited several gardens where May was doing its thing. Intrigued by this rhododendron flower going over in a magnificent dell at Hergest Croft Garden on the Welsh Border. Their azalea garden is also in full flood at the moment: well worth a visit.

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White Clematis montana, looking poetical.

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This is a mistake: a tulip on my balcony that I took without checking the camera settings. I like it. (Sorry this is going up two days late!)

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Spindle tree fruit taken in late summer; one of a collection of four images I’m printing for the next Marches Independent Photography show at Theatre Severn in June.

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Hieroglyphs on a birch tree, found on my photography walk along Morda Brook last Saturday.

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Went with the sunshine to Powis yesterday. It was too bright for much photography, but I found some dying tulips in dappled shade, and had fun.

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Watching spring come slowly: primrose on a hedgebank on Candy Lane.

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Nearly forgot! This is one of my backlog of garden images, which I sorted over the Easter weekend. A fallen begonia flower.