April 2021 - Bluebells mean Spring!

Another flower – one that speaks of April and early summer, more than spring. I go out each morning with my dog and sometimes walk along the A3 (well on a pavement to its side, protected by steel barriers!) on my way to the cycle path between New Malden and Raynes Park. Sometimes I take my camera, but not often: but I always have my iPhone with me.

I like trees, mist, frost, early morning sunlight – but also quirky pictures. This photo shows the bluebells growing right by the side of the road with cars rushing by (even in lockdown there were always cars travelling along the A3) – and you can see one here, blurred by its speed behind the barrier and the flowers.

The photo is definitely not a great piece of art – indeed I was somewhat reluctant to bother keeping it. But I did, because I always like the concept of nature battling its way through against our artificial and polluting ways. You can see this in the small plants that grow out of the top of a stone side to a bridge, or the plants that grow in the shingle of a beach, splashed by salty air, and very little earth to be found. It’s one of the lovely things about nature that it is fighting back and trying to tell us that it is still here and is beautiful.