Hello! I hope you have had a lovely week. In this house? Well, GCSE season kicked off today…fun… and at the other end there has been a graduation too, plus copious cow parsley, swift screeches all of every evening, a couple of meals outside, the passing over of the hawthorn, and in its place an inkling of elderflower and even the first few wild roses in the hedgerows.
This is our weekly community post in which we ask each other the question: what hve you seen/done/eaten this week that just somehow belongs to this moment in the year? I tell you mine and you tell me yours, and in this way we track the year in its minutiae.
Here’s mine:
Canopy
In the woods - which is where I am every weekend for at least one walk now - the canopy is starting to meet above our heads. Soon it will close over, but for now it is light and gappy, and the forest floor is all dappled sunlight. This is a beautiful bit, and I took as many pictures of the forest floor as I did of the canopy, but I had to choose one. In our particular woods, which are in a valley and so lean towards gloomy and gothis when dark, I’m not keen on the next bit, which the canopy closes over. But I will enjoy these last gasps of my stunning late spring woodland.
That’s it from me. Now over to you. What have you seen/spotted/baked etc…this week that felt particular to this exact moment in the year?
Answers in the comments, please.
Resting beside the river after my own dappled woodland walk, I watched a mother duck guide her little ones upstream through gently tumbling water - all patience, concern and pride. Obviously I filmed it and sent it to my own university based brood! Good luck Lia, and others, keeping home as calm as possible through exam season.
I’ve been walking along the Loire this week and heard cuckoos every day, I can’t remember the last time I heard one at home.