May

The weather forecast was for sunshine.  It was a highest on record for the first May in the end.  I spent it indoors.  Fortunately I'd gone out before work for a walk and, as always, took great delight from nature.  Highlights were a grebe that was diving and then popping up in a different location, a surface skipping insect, fungi, blossom, a tufted duck and a back-lit willow that appeared to have been cloud pruned as the leaves were clustered at the ends of the branches.  I even found delight from the snoring of a fisherman ebbing out from his bivvy   

I really wanted to swim but work needed to be finished before my day off tomorrow and allocating a big enough window was just not practical.  There will, I hope, be other opportunities over another long weekend 

I took a look beneath and out from one of my favourite trees.  Always a pleasure to spe d time there.