The Small Things Spreading Joy in April

Posted on by Kizzia

Spring has well and truly sprung so there was much blossom and many other beautiful blooms shared during the month, as well as a few more random items. Enjoy!

Close up of a group of small blueish purple trumpet shaped flowers with pinkish purple centres growing on a single stem.
A magnolia tree, absolutely covered in pink and cream tulip shaped flowers, fills the centre of the photo. It is visible above a garden fence that has green shrubs in front of it. To the right of the tree is a glass conservatory roof and behind it you can see houses and a cold blue, cloud filled sky.
A tree leans from the right of the photo across in front of a garden wall. On the grass below it sit two ginger cats and in its branches is a black cat. Behind the wall are the roofs of houses and a cloud streaked blue sky.
Open wallflowers in shades of yellow, pink, orange, and red s and some unopened purple buds are surrounded by the large green leaves of a laurel hedge.
Three white crocuses with purple bottoms and yellow stamens are peeping through the grass and last years fallen leaves.
A handmade birthday card that is a riot of beautiful spring flowers (in pinks and purples and blues) stands on top of a bookshelf next to a vase of yellow and red tulips still in bud. Next to the vase are two wooden cat carvings, one cat “loafing” and looking off the edge, the other sitting up and looking upwards, to a picture frame behind the vase. In the frame if the iconic Chat Noir poster.
Close up of two forget-me-not flower heads, each individual bloom having five sky blue petals and a yellow white centre. They are surrounded by green leaves.
Branches laden with white blossom frame the top left, left side, and bottom of the photo. The blossom is in focus. Beyond, all out of focus but identifiable, a river stretches away out of the right of frame, reflecting the blue cloudy sky above, and the bank is a lush green stripe between the two.
White blossom flowers and white buds not yet open cluster along a branch next to freshly budded leaves.
Many part and fully open roses in various vibrant shades of red and pink fill the photo.
Many part and fully open roses in various vibrant shades of red and pink fill the photo.
A stem of hyacinth flowers, all fully open, the petals striped deep pink down their centres, fading to pale pink at their edges. The long green leaves of the plant curve away to the ground on all sides.
Ten stems of grape hyacinth - a myriad of tiny blue bell shaped flowers clustered on each, giving the vague look of a bunch of grapes - grow amid a swath of greenery in a garden border. Behind them is a garden wall and the tall leaves of daffodil la that have already flowered.
Close up of the end of a branch with four reddish buds at the tip and two on the sides, swollen almost to the point of bursting open. Out of focus in the background are other bare branches and some green shrubbery.
A paperback book lies on a crocheted blanket. The book cover is a drawing of four women and a variety of Arthurian artefacts and images, the back ground in shades of greens and yellows. The title, in gold capitals, reads “The Cleaving” with the author’s name “Juliet E McKenna” in smaller black capitals below it. In the bottom right of the cover are the words: Four Women, Four Destinies, The Future of King Arthur’s Albion”.
A branch almost completely covered in open white blossom and pink unopened buds.
Close up of a bluebell stem with 11 individual bells on it. Behind, out of focus, grass and dead leaves carpet the ground under large, greening trees.
Close up of what looks at first glance like a single many petalled white flower but is in fact a stem topped with many small white flowers with tiny yellow centres. The impression of one flower has been created because the flowers around the edges are fully open whilst the ones at the top are still in bud, making it look like the buds are the centre, their yellow pink hue mimicking stamen and pollen.
Close up of masses of fully open pink apple blossom, vivid against green leaves and a Mediterranean blue sky.
An “out and about” photo of my notebook, pen, handbag, sunglasses and coffee sitting on an outdoor table in front of me. Beyond the table is a courtyard full of tables, old stable buildings and a blue sky bisected with multicoloured bunting strung across the courtyard.
A newly opened clump of oval-ish tree leaves that are a delicate green colour and have a “frilly” appearance.
A cluster of fully open pink and white crab apple blossom caught in a sun beam, surrounded by new leaves and with blue sky and many more blossoms behind them.
A cluster of pure white tiny trumpet shaped flowers with 4 petals and a hint of yellow deep inside, surrounded by olive coloured oval leaves with serrated edges, all the same size as the flowers.
A square planting space in a courtyard filled with daffodils and wild hyacinths. The photo is focused on a wild hyacinth flower in the foreground, six elongated pale blue petals which do not overlap attached to a small circular yellow centre. The border is riot of yellow, white and blue with the courtyard brick buildings and green, yellow, and orange bunting behind.
A close up of a bluebell stalk with 5 fully open flowers and two buds. Lit by the morning sun the grass around them is a verdant green and a haze of blue from other bluebells plants in the background is visible in front of out of focus tree trunks and a pale blue sky
Two large pale yellow tulips are in the foreground of a garden border that is mostly filled with lush green foliage. Other tulips are visible in the distance, as well as several mature trees standing stark against a pale grey, cold looking sky.
A group of yellow archangel - the hooded flowers wonderfully golden - with their heart shaped toothed leaves stand in stark contrast to the blue forget-me-nots behind them.
A grey squirrel with only half a tail is standing on a garden lawn, in dappled sunlight, in front of a border filled with greenery and a tree trunk.
A massive clump of gloriously golden yellow primula flowers in close up, the only other colour in the picture the spring green of their leaves.

And this is the video I shared instead of a photo in the middle of the month: just over a minute of the stream flowing through the woods in the sunshine, with the birds singing overhead:

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