Shropshire Spring

[cmcmck]

We took another walk in the Ercall forest last week to see how things were waking up.



Primroses!



And the bluebells beginning to poke their heads up:



Fungi, of course!



And lichens/mosses:



Nature creates its own art!





Those old oaks again:



The hawthorn buds are just starting to open up:



Spring meets Autumn:



More fungi. These were HUGE!



A ewe and her lamb come to take a look at us:



This is Willowmoor farm down in the valley below the Wrekin:



Yet more fungi:



This rejoices in the name of stinking hellebore (aka dungwort) Sounds like something out of Harry Potter!



And the lane that leads us back home after about two hundred yards:






 

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Aw sheep! A number of the trees around the neighborhood have burst into bloom in the last 10 days. Always good when they confirm spring has arrived 🙂

[cmcmck]

Our own cherry tree is now in full bloom and abuzz with insects.