20/52 Daisy Chain

Jodie picked daisies on the way home from school, so I said pick them with the stems long and I'll make a daisy chain when we get home.

19/52 Make a wish!

My boy is now 12. Where'd the time go??

18/52 Don't Pick the Bluebells!

Bluebells at Calke, they always remind me of a Giles cartoon, a cover on one of the annuals: the extended family have a day out to the country, arriving at a wood full of bluebells, and a sign that says don't pick them, and the back cover shows their bus heading off up the lane with a blue haze at all the windows, the wood bereft of bluebells! Classic.

17/52 Tea Room & Garden, Lacock

Lacock is an idyllic village, National Trust owned, not a satellite dish or TV aerial in sight. Period dramas have been filmed here - Candleford for example. Beautiful.

16/52 Magnolia Stellata

Caught this Magnolia bloom in Allestree Park. There used to be a pale pink magnolia in the front garden of the house opposite ours, but a few years ago they removed the whole garden and had the frontage completely covered with tarmac. I really miss their magnolia, it was in bloom when Kim was born, and reminded me of her every year after. So now our own drive has been landscaped - bucking the trend here, we have re-instated garden! - we'll be planinting a Magnolia Stellata, Stellata meaning star, and that's very appropriate as we said to Oliver at the time, Kim's gone to be a star (he was only 3).

15/52 Static Jodie

 

Jodie's first appearance in the 52, but not her last ;0)
Her hair gets full of static when she bounces on the trampoline!
 

14/52 Pollen cafe

Am I blogging too many flowers? Tough - its finally SPRING!

13/52 Waiting

I had some waiting to do ... to catch the waiting figure with no-one else in shot - busy shopping mall.

12/52 Cleared to land

I was having a field day on these amazing crocus blooms near Ashbourne - I do love spring - but when I reviewed my images later I was thrilled to have captured a bee homing in on these pollen-rich beauties. Cool :0)

11/52 Yellow

So now I'm thinking... I should have taken a photograph of the label so I could tell you what this beautiful spring-flowering plant is called. Memo to self...