Springtime in the garden

It is the Easter holiday and the weather is fine. Almost too fine: the living room curtains are mostly drawn to keep the sun out, and the weather has been spookily good for some time now. For various reasons we're not going anywhere¹ and so have the weird luxury of four days at home with nothing to do. Naturally I blew most of those days in various ways but I've still had enough time to enjoy the garden and even tidy it up a little, though as usual much remains to be done. But enough words: on with the pix.

Cherry blossom. This is the one that RNLT gave us, perhaps for my 40th.





Apple. This is the Russet that perenially needs cutting back, but was last autumn.



A brief break from blossom to bees. Careful inspection will show you that the "flowery" hive has been all over it's front face, for unclear reasons, but I suspect them of evil swarming tendencies. Though if they want to swarm, why are they still there?



The pear tree, against a backdrop of the new neighbour's law. This was an attempt to artistically combine the blossom on the tree and the fallen blossom scattered on the ground.



And the pear blossom itself.





And as a bonus to those who made it this far, the rare Fen Tiger has been tempted out.

Notes

1. Daniel is back at Peterhouse and has his third year exams starting early, on Tuesday, which Engineering do so that the summer term is free for projects, or so he claims. Miranda has her exams-which-influence-her-predicted-A-level-grades² starting on Wednesday and is keen to revise.

2. Actually pre-U, but that will confuse most people so call the A-level.