wordless wednesday: hints of green

monday verse: a wood coming into leaf

From the first to the second Warily, from the tip to the palm Third leaf (the blackthorn done) From the fourth to the fifth and (Latrix, Castanea, Fraxinus, Tilja) Thaw taps, groping in stumps, frost like an adder easing away The sixth to the seventh (plums conceive a knobbly stone within a blossom) Ushers the …

wordless wednesday: beech leaves (off with the old and on with the new)

dragon

I came across this rather fearsome-looking dragon whilst out walking in the woods last week. Luckily, it turned out to be a twisted bit of old pine stump, left behind after some vigerous cutting-back of the undergrowth. Still, it just goes to show that you should always keep your wits about you when out and …