By: Blonde Two
At least two lovely things happened on Thursday last week;
Firstly, I got to take my sister for a tour around Dartmoor. I have a few sisters; but this is the one who painted the wonderful illustrations for The Dartmoor Christmas Tree. We did a lot of exploring, took approximately a million photos and had a picnic on a very slippery rock next to the Dart. Great excitement may have been obvious from our demeanour – we were researching the illustrations for Blonde Book Two!
The second thing was that, whilst sipping tea down at Deeper Marsh (Spitchwick), I spotted my first snowdrops of the year. They were a particular sweet bunch and maybe a taster of the spring that is surely just around our Devonshire corner. I thought that I should share them with you so here they are!
Mole will soon abort his spring cleaning and scuttle off into the outdoors and meet his friends.
I had similar “spring” thoughts over the weekend. There was definitely a springiness in the air on Saturday and while out walking along some lanes of Churston yesterday we came across loads of catkins. However looking at the forecast for the end of the week, maybe not!!!!
All I know is that compared with the weather this time last year, it has been a fantastic January!!!
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Love snowdrops – our churchyard has masses in bud. Up in the woods, the bluebell leaves are nearly 2 inches long. I had two white-tailed bumblebees (not sure which species) on the mahonia flowers in my garden on 20th January. I’m sure I haven’t seen them that early before, Love the “One Foot In The Air” piccie.
Gosh! I would have thought I had done well to classify a bumble bee down to “white tailed”. I can’t believe they are sub-divided beyond that.
Imagine if there was a pink tailed bumble bee! That would be a great find!
She is an adventurous sister that one! You should have seen her waterfall leaping!