Despite a relaxation in the lockdown restrictions I was still walking to many of the same locations during April and taking the camera with me. The walk to Combs Lane, for instance, has become a habit. Not only does it provide an opportunity to observe the seasonal changes around the village, it has also been a healthy experience.
The stubborn weight that had persisted for many years has final gone and as the pace of life starts to pick up, I realise that lockdowns were actually a very calming experience. The rush of modern life disappeared for a while and was replaced by more time to observe - something that I will take forward when we finally return to the full normal...whatever and whenever that might be!
That extra bit of calm time in April was spent photographing the leaves returning to two of my favourite trees in the Combs Lane location. The first is a sycamore tree that stand alone in one of the fields and the second is a giant beech tree that arches over the lane. The sequence below shows the leaf buds starting to show in the first two weeks of the month. This is followed by some sprouting leaves in the third week and then a full crown by the last week in April.
The sycamore:
The beech tree:
A few weeks behind the sycamore and beech trees were the lime, oak and ash trees where the leaves only started to develop in late April and early May. I will therefore cover these in a separate post and finish this entry with some general scene of Combs Lane taken during April:
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