Flower time
 

I don't know if it is the same in certain parts of the States, but here in the SE of the UK, we've had such a prolongued winter that everything seems as if its is coming into bloom at once.

Too many choices really, but as our Bluebell woods nearby always present well - and this year is no exception - thought I'd post a few pics here and invite others to do the same with pictures they have that particularly catch their attention.

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Spot Mrs CF!

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It's a shame you can't experience the scent!

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One last combined panoramic effect jobbie...:

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I love the shot with Mrs. CF and the pooch on the path, beautiful composition.

I hope she's not doing what it looks like she's doing behind that bush, man.

Thankfully not! Another picture to take your mnd off that idea anyway!

This is an unusual tree - I haven't seen too many of them around. unexpectedly, we had one in the garden of our last house, one that was well established. It blossoms in May and is extremely colourful (as you can see). The flowers are small and tight - similar to forsythia flowers, but the leaves are rounded like large coins. We know it as a Judas Tree or Tree of Judaea.

This one (well there are actually two right next to each other - even more unusual!) lies in a farmer's field adjacent to the M25. The field and what looks to have been a small arboretum where it is located would have been part of the original Headley Court Estate a couple of centuries ago. The estate is now broken up, and the main house and about a quarter of the original grounds are a specialist MOD hospital used for rehabiltation and recouperatiom for troops injured in battle - we get a lot of Iraq and previously Afghanistan casualties being treated there (usually helicoptered in)

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VERRRY Cool CF !!!

I love some of the names of the roads , zig zag road :)

Flower?

OK, flower.

Hell yeah, flower. :D

Rapeseed, hayfever nightmare

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Primrose on a riverbank

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...primrose01.jpg

Daffodils in the shade

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...affodils01.jpg

Apologies for size, let me know if they bother you and I'll re-size accordingly.

Rapeseed and a wind farm - two forms of alternative energy (rapeseed oil is used as a bio-fuel additive).

Why, they fit perfectly. :thumb2: