May on the Southwell Trail

This selection of photographs continues my series documenting aspects of the Southwell Trail throughout the year. For this post I concentrate mainly on the close-up work, the details that I pick out whilst walking. I have no particular plan for this activity other than trying to take a photograph each time I go out. The subjects may include anything that catches my eye or interests me - may be a flower, or a type of tree, a view, the weather and so on. There always seems something to photograph and the Southwell Trail has kept me engaged for years! These are some of the results from May..

The hawthorn tree is also known as the May-tree due to its flowering period and there were plenty of opportunities to capture them during the month:

I spotted this agricultural flower in one of the fields which I believe belongs to the broad bean plant. In fact, I am sure, as I revisited the field yesterday and there were plenty of nice bean pods growing:

There are lots of dandelion-like flowers and I am never sure which is which. I think this is hawkweed:

The dog roses started to bloom at the end of May:

These red helicopter seeds caught my eye but I am yet to confidently identify the tree, beyond thinking it is a type of maple?

This delicate flower is a hedgerow cranesbill, I believe, and it is followed by a fine display of honeysuckle flowers:

Finally, it is sometimes good to look up and I particularly liked the cloud shapes I captured in this photo:

Blanchbeck Lane (May 2019)

There area couple of wonderful lime trees on Blanchbeck Lane which I regularly photograph as part of my doorstep photography project. Doorstep photography only includes photographs taken within walking distance of home and aims to build a greater appreciation of my local environment across the seasons.

On this occasion in mid-May, the lime tree leaves were displaying some fine spring colours which I captured in the following set of photographs:

Growing very close to the one of the lime trees was a patch of stitchwort plants - they have such elegant flowers and they are delight to photograph:

River Trent (April/May 2019)

In April I published a series of photographs taken along the River Trent at Fiskerton. Since then I returned a couple of times but walking in the opposite direction towards the Hazelford Lock.

This stretch of the Trent is particularly peaceful and in sunny weather it is extremely picturesque. I especially enjoyed the mirror-like reflections in the river and the colours from the trees and flowers that line the bank (I think the yellow flowers below are oilseed rape which have rooted from the nearby agricultural fields).

This next selection includes photographs from mid April. Some of the trees are still developing their full compliment of leaves and still have the fresh yellow / green colour which is characteristic of springtime:

Finally, at Hazelford Lock and weir, there is an old rusting barge that I would have like have got close to. Unfortunately though, access to the bridge across the river is restricted so I had to make do with some long range record shots: