It is more than warm when layers are abandoned to one single layer, when leggings are discarded.
It is more than warm when Purple mugwort Toothwort (Lathrea clandestina) bloom in the presence of starry-yellow celandines....
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when water shimmers noisily, rushing as if it is late...
down by the mill...
in shafts of streaming sunlight...
whilst
buckthorn or blackthorn
(I never know which) blossom makes a starry screen of a river view...
and away from the torrent of the weir, I hear, high in the sky, the cry of les grues..
two or three groups circling, gathering, combining, separating...
possibly 200 or more...
a passer by said they were looking for a resting place....
another passer by commented to his wife that they were following the river....
It mattered not to me, for I was in ecstasy, a witness to Spring!!!
Oh how I love being alive in France!!
I feel deliriously mad with JOY!!!!!!!!
Toothwort not mugwort, and blackthorn not buckthorn (which is restricted to the coast). Nice crane sighting, maybe some storks in amongst them. I think both your passers-by were probably right about what they were doing.
ReplyDeleteAh yes.... this is what happens when amnesia begins to set in!! As I lived near the coast this must be why I was always confused about the two. One lives and learns...thank you for the corrections which I shall amend!
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