Wetness And Greenness

Some days I wake up and feel I've just got to get outside for a walk. It's a bit cloudy out there and it might rain later, but I'm not going to let that stop me. Lets see if we can find something to photograph along the well-trodden paths around home. 

When I'm on familiar territory I have to take a quick snap to get me going, otherwise I just trudge along and get bored. So here's a little portrait of a pioneering little sprig that is making its way through the bars of its prison. That's what you've got to do: just poke your head outside and see what's there. 

And just a little way along the road there's a show of flowers in the border, looking fine despite three days of heavy rain.

Lets celebrate the overnight rain! It will return the green to the English countryside, though there'll be many farmers worrying over such crops that yet remain unharvested.

The familiar little footbridge, just behind the church, is in danger of being swamped by vegetation. Water is still dripping from the leaves as I cross. 

Here's an adolescent tree trying to fight its way upwards into the light among the ivy-clad grown-ups. I fear that its bold efforts may be brought to an end the next time this path needs clearing, but maybe it'll be spared. 

Down on Shepreth Moor there's a log-pile that seems to have built itself a little nest among the dry grasses. These little piles have been left all over as potential homes for insect life.

In the hedgerow I find a familiar dead tree is slowly sinking earthwards, having been felled by the winds of last winter. 

It almost looks like November, but you can just glimpse the big, square straw bales in the far distance. And actually it's really quite warm this morning - it's not so much misty as steamy!

There seems to be a "tree" theme emerging from my photographs this morning and here's a Scots pine raising its noble head above the more familiar native trees of the little woodland.

A fallen branch inverts the usual pattern of tree-growth and adds a little hint of Autumn to the general greenery.

But mostly there's unstoppable growth sprouting up everywhere, like green fountains. So that's what my walk has revealed on this murky and humid morning. Now I'd better head for home before the next thunderstorm arrives. And this is August 2020.

Take care.