These golden saxifrage flowers are amongst the first to appear in spring and even though they are green (except for their yellow stamens) they are a very welcome hint of what is to come. These were growing beside a little tributary of the Tees, downstream from Egglestone bridge, on Saturday.
There's fresh new green growth everywhere - these are the new shoots of silky wall feather-moss Homalothecium sericeum creeping out over their rocky substrate, in Teesdale.....
... and amongst last autumn's decaying leaves in a beech wood these pristine cuckoo pint leaves were unfurling.
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The signs of spring are all around us now Phil.
ReplyDeleteExciting time of the year.
We are over the worst of winter. Soon be hosepipe bans.
ReplyDeleteYour first picture is very pretty.For us, spring means the beginning of heat.
ReplyDeleteThings are certainly waking up. As for green round here - my lawn needs cutting already!
ReplyDeleteCertainly is Keith - wish I didn't have to spend most of my weekdays indoors!
ReplyDeleteI hope the snow is history Adrian - it feels like it's going to be an early spring.
ReplyDeleteHi lotus leaf, spring here means very variable weather - sunshine one minute, rain the next and cold most of the time...
ReplyDeleteThe cold weather seemed to hold a lot of early growth back John, but everything seems to be compensating now....
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