To have such spectacular wildflowers growing so comfortably within a big city is often a surprise to many people, residents and visitors alike, but here are this year’s beautiful bluebells flowering in Chalet Wood, Wanstead Park, East London. Some years they come slightly earlier, and some years they come a bit later, but their breath-taking abundance every spring never fails to make me smile 🙂
Tag: bluebells
All a Bit of a Blur…
Springtime walks to see the local bluebells in Chalet Wood are a bit of an annual pilgrimage for me – every year I take my camera and take some new pictures and, lovely though they are, looking back over my cumulative collection I can see they’re all much of a muchness with nothing really to show which year is which (apart from the image data and which particular camera I’ve used). So after taking my usual picturesque shots this afternoon (watch this space), I also played about with deliberately blurring some shots to see how that looked, and I’m really pleased with the results. A bit trippy to look at, but fun nonetheless 🙂
Taken in Chalet Wood, Wanstead Park, East London
Flower of the Day: Budding Bluebells
This little huddle of bluebells is still half buds, half bells, but I love the pale lavender grey colour, especially against the green of the leaves 🙂
Bluebells
Bluebells growing wild in Bush Wood, Leytonstone, taken this afternoon 🙂
Bluebells in Dappled Light
Lovely dappled light adding some dramatic definition to the palest of bluebells on Wanstead Flats this afternoon 🙂
Flower of the Day: Bluebells
Chalet Woods, Wanstead Park
Even though we are living in London, my husband and I are really lucky to live relatively close to a beautiful bluebell woods, so we went for a walk there yesterday to see how the bluebells are doing this year… 🙂
Weekly Photo Challenge: Prolific
We’re lucky to live within reasonable walking distance of a beautiful bluebell wood, and although I haven’t yet managed to visit there this year, these are old images from April 2015, April 2016, and April 2017 showing the profuse proliferation of bluebells year on year 🙂
Wanstead Park, East London
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