Malus 'Gorgeous' - three purple flowering crab apple trees splashing their spring colours by Bedford town bridge. As I sketched, the wind blew a man’s hat off and it fell in the river. He asked me if I knew of any nearby boats he could use to rescue his hat. I directed him to the boat club. He knew it was a long shot but he explained that it was his ‘lucky hat’. Then he disappeared. A few minutes later a canoeist passed by, but the hat had already sunk. I didn’t see the man again. Maybe he had a rethink about the luckiness of his hat. |