Dead leaves and the dirty ground

Spring glory

I was a lucky girl and got to head home for an extra long weekend and was treated to some beautiful weather as well as getting to see Spring in all its glory. There was my favourite - orange blossom which smells absolutely devine - and some of the most colourful array of flowers on offer. The palonia tree is a perennial favourite of mine with its wonderful smell and strange yet enticing purple-flecked flowers. All in all, a rather splendid Spring weekend.

When life gives you lemons

A touch of paradise

Palm trees will forever remind me of the tropics and in turn warm rays of sunshine and paradise. My sister and her girlfriend have a palm tree growing outside their house and even on the dreariest of days it cheers me up. It transports me to another time, another season. It reminds me of those wonderful, carefree summer days of one's childhood.

Shadow of the past

I've posted about this tree before in the past, but it has the knack to look utterly different from month to month. Back in Summer, the flowers are fragrant with splashes of purple and in Winter and Autumn it feels a bit like a shadow of the past, looming in the sky.

Winter

I've always disliked winter the most out of all of the seasons. Nature seems to hibernate and lack any colour or warmth. Like this silver birch tree, it shed it's leaves and captured the starkness of winter.