… that there’s no point trying to take a photograph of a bluebell wood, because even the best result is never any more than a travesty.
This was the best least laughable
Things have been a bit lacklustre on this blog of late (yes, yes, I know, how can you tell?). The truth is that while I love spring, especially the whole not-being-winter part, it also makes me anxious. There’s just so much going on – everything growing so fast that you can hear it, birds arriving and singing and nesting all over the place, the hedgerow suddenly a mass of spring flowers and loveliness, and all the time the terrible feeling that it will be gone before we’ve even noticed it so hurry, hurry, hurry and go out and enjoy it. And yet, there have also been deadlines to meet, sick husbands to look after, visitors to prepare for, meals to cook and clothes to wash and dishes to do and it’s felt like, whatever I’m doing, it’s the wrong thing and besides it’s too late anyway.
So this weekend, I have been taking a bit of time just to appreciate it all. And if blogging is a little slow in the next few days it will be because we’ve got some visitors who will be helping to remind us just what a lovely place it is we live in.
When it’s not raining, that is.
May 24, 2009 at 8:52 pm |
I feel that blue flowers against green foliage don’t stand out very well. If they were white or yellow it would be a different story.
May 24, 2009 at 9:02 pm |
true, but then they wouldn’t be bluebells…
They do seem pretty striking in real life, it’s just that the camera can’t seem to capture the true effect.
May 24, 2009 at 9:46 pm |
Some lovely pictures – especially the fern fronds doing their thing.
May 25, 2009 at 7:21 am |
Aw, well I appreciated your lovely photos – even the bluebell wood – something we know nothing about down here in the Southern hemisphere. I also know that frantic feeling well, and am looking forward to the winter hibernation feeling, which says on a rainy morning in the weekend, “stay in bed, read, don’t get up until midday – it’s WINTER”.
May 25, 2009 at 9:47 am |
The best photos I’ve seen seem to have been taken at the level of the flowers, with some low (evening) sun striking the flowers more than the greenery.
May 25, 2009 at 4:46 pm |
Karl & Jenny – thanks. (the fern photo also got the approval of the real photographer)
Autolycus – I shall have to give that a try.
May 25, 2009 at 9:07 pm |
Is “lovelines” supposed to be loveliness? or did I wander into some sort of alternative lifestyle post?
May 26, 2009 at 8:09 am |
oops. Edited
May 27, 2009 at 11:45 pm |
The other photo I can never get to work is the shot up into tree branches. The camera virtually screams at me: THIS WILL NOT WORK IN 2D YOU OAF. HOW MANY TIMES?
May 28, 2009 at 7:59 am |
hehe I need a camera like that.
May 29, 2009 at 10:42 am |
Get well soon, sick husband!
May 29, 2009 at 5:03 pm |
That is such a dreamy photo with the ethereal bluebells. Don’t feel guilty about the blog – get out there and inhale all that gorgeous Spring!
May 29, 2009 at 5:30 pm |
Flo – he is much improved
Nikki – today I have been doing both…