Friday, March 16, 2007

Day 319
Today I wanted to sketch a flower to make a little hand-painted card. This is our bluebell, a very hardy little plant that flowers all about after rain. There were also lots of decaying pine cone 'leaves', beautifully delicate in the way they disintegrated. 12 km cycle

2 comments:

Julie Oakley said...

I think ours may start early this year - it's normally about the first or second week in May but with this mild winter...

I don't know if you remember, but what are called bluebells in Scotland are a completely different plant to the hyacinth family English bluebells. The Scottish ones are in fact harebells

Penny said...

Lovely delicate little flowers, i think that the "leaves" of a pine cone are called scales but I could be wrong, I wonder if the black cockies had pulled them off the cones.