by Steve Tanham
Sometimes nature takes a hand and ‘consumes the shot’.
With the above grouping of blossom on the shrubs, the old outbuilding (see below) and a one of the surviving ash trees, I was feeling distinctly poetic.
My mind mused ‘from blossom to birds to bold blue sky; and the idea of one’s attention being hijacked by beauty was compelling.
For several minutes I simply gazed. Then comcluded the experience needed no more poetry than the photo.
The first such day of the season (here). I hope we all get many more.
American politics aside, it’s a beautiful world…
(Our outbuilding is a small bit of local history. It was the storage place for gunpowder (saltpetre, as was) in the 1820s. The lower half of the garden was the old canal basin.
We have many unshiftable weeds that seem to date from the same period…
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Sun in Gemini 
A wonderful photo depicting spring! I agree, it is still a beautiful world.
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Thanks, Darlene 😎
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