Goodnight friends! Another outing, this time on a mini adventure with a car-owning friend out to a bluebell wood. A prerennial feature across Britain of the rolling from spring into summer, forests become suffused with a misty blue carpet of bell-shaped flowers resolving into nebula bands of colour in the green world of the woodland. Not an ideal flower-viewing day, overcast and pale with ocassional speckles of drizzle, but the soft damp haze added its only layer of ethereal strangeness to the spectacle. Hard to capture meaningfully on camera, its particular beauty comes from the ebbs and flows of colour, blooms separating as you come near, merging into broad swathes of colour around you as you depart.
Pain not too bad, especially considering the weather, and building my day around a brief outing with periods of prepatory and reparative rest really helped a small special event not become an exessive burden.
May we find the courage and patience we need to build connections based on honesty, compassion and open communication today!
