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antidote to grey

Its another grey day here in Bristol, so I decided to remind myself about how it can be in the early summer (I seem to do a lot of that at this time of year!)… here are four pictures, all from the same month in 2010 (May)… First is an allotment site in Bristol (Kennel Lodge Site)… early morning, sun just raking over the Ashton Court Estate… warm and windless…

poppy-on-allotment

Second is East Prawle, Devon, almost a Monet style pond(?) with Iris pseudacorus at the edge… Once spotted the local councillor of EP cleaning out the pond in thigh-high boots ;-)  the village pond… an increasingly rare site…

east-prawle-pond

My ‘bleeding heart’ (common name for Dicentra spectabilis)… wow, flowers in early spring, at Middlecombe Nurseries…you can get it in white too, but this has to be the colour…

Dicentra spectabilis ('Bleeding Heart')

Finally, a beautiful scene in a secret little lane near East Prawle again… typical English early summer scene… late afternoon, I can smell the cow parsley…

cow parsley country lane

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