Brampton wood, Cambridgeshire 23 April. This was from a photograph, trying to capuitre the blue and mauve of the blubells in sunshine and shadow. The reality was more luminous. The path was more distinctly shadows of roots and foliage, but I found the reds and browns held things together. It's a beautiful, conserved patch of woodland with a clearly audible jay when we visted, and a deer moving through the wood at a distance. Elsewhere the sentinel oaks offered majestic shapes, curves and hollows. Their bark was, in places, ornately swelling and encrusted with the work of beetles. Silver birch, coppiced hazel and primrose lightened the wood. No litter and few people about. |