 |
| People who leave dandelions to grow outside their houses instead of weeding them away are right to appreciate such beauty. |
My laptop has come back from the menders with a new vocation.
While away it was sent back to factory settings so it's decided to dedicate its life now to incessant up-dating. Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow.
Still. It's pleasant to have a new keyboard; and for the mouse pad to work; and not to need to press the same buttons over and over before anything happens.
There are, of course, masses of things to catch up with so I'm only partly here. There are on-line bills to check, emails to send and a general gearing up. Over this non-computer period I've been doing different things and it's odd how odd it feels to be returning to normal. It's that funny kind of feeling at the end of the long summer break from school. It means you will be seeing your friends again - but affection for being on holiday lingers on.
The sun has come out to celebrate so I've been on a quick look around for plants growing in the streets.
 |
| Where playgrounds meet pavements - that's a good place to look. |
Dandelions come at the top of my list of favourites and, all of a sudden, there are loads of them.
Shepherd's Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) with its tiny white flowers and heart-shaped seed pods also comes pretty high on my street-plant list.
Then there are the leaves of an up-and-growing Smooth Sow Thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) with a purple so astonishing it doesn't see quite 'right'. Such a colour would be a surprise in petals. But these are leaves! Leaves! (It will grow greener as it grows taller.)
And then there is grass in its many states and varieties. I really do like the single plants which pop up through tarmac, grow beside bench legs and establish themselves between paving stones. This little lawn has already dried out and gone to seed.
Have you been noticing new plants in the streets near you?
If so, why not post about them and put a link in the box below?
It will be good to see what you see too.
The box will be open till 7pm on the 25th April.
It will be good to see what you see too.
The box will be open till 7pm on the 25th April.
* * *
Apologies to everyone who's been waiting for me to reply to emails or for their trees to be added to the Tree-Following list. I'll be catching up gradually.)
