Goodnight friends! Dropping to 10°c or so, and mostly very grey, thin persistent rain carrying on for long stretches of the afternoon. The past few rainy days seem to have been the perfect trigger for the treetops around here to green. Oaks are blossoming in tufty green streamers, the long spatulate leaves of horse-chestnuts and the red-tinted foliage of sycamore-maples are opening up. Several times there were long, tumbling rolls of thunder and dim far-off flashes. A lucky break in the weather just as my girlfriend and her dog came over to take a walk with me. A very thin, misty drizzle continuing and the southeastern sky still one vast flat plain of dense iron grey, but sleepy early evening sunlight from the west lit up the trees as if they were actors on a darkened stage.
May we find joy in discovery and learning today!
Image ID: Photo of shining water droplets on a low-lying patch of young garlic-mustard leaves, lush spring green and heart shaped with shallow toothed edges.
Photo of a bright scarlet ladybird climbing among drooping pale purple bluebells, a single shining water droplet on its carapace.
