Ode to a Bluebell
Sun 03 May, 2009, 17:58 pm
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Mood: Happy ]
Mood: Happy ]I feel in a poetic mood today, I was out this morning for a walk before lunch and decided to take my camera and have a look to see if the Bluebells were in full flower. For those of you who are unfamiliar with them the British Bluebell is a wild woodland flower that appears in mid April to May depending upon the mildness of the weather. It preferes sunny dappled shade within wooded areas and in older woodlands they can form large swathes of flowers covering many acres. On sunny days they give off a lovely perfumed smell and attract lots of Butterflies and Bees. Due to the mild weather they have put on a very good show this year, so I have posted a few pictures for you to look at.
“The start of May! I think I should, go take a walk in Bluebell Wood
And see the myriads of flowers, cascades of blue beneath the bowers”
“Bright Silver Birch, now clothed in green, swift tides of blue flow in between
the dappled shade, in every hue, from Indigo to powder blue”
“A headlong rush beneath the trees, the home of Butterflies and bees
Who sip the nectar while they may, from break of dawn, till end of day”
“But soon this miracle will pass, fast hid by brambles, ferns and grass
They softly steal themselves away, to lift our hearts another day”
Horus
Here are a few more pictures that I took today.
This one is an unusual 'Albino' Bluebell, I found several growing in just one small patch. It looks like the mutation is taking hold as I could see perhaps a few dozen dotted within an isolated patch of several thousand.
A close up of the Bluebell flower, notice how the brambles and ferns are already starting to out grow them.
Here is a 'Peacock' Butterfly that cooperated very well in having it's picture taken.
