On one of the first beautiful, sunny and warm days this year I made a walk at Lough Hyne and the forest that overlooks this salt water lake.  At the lake it was very busy with swimmers and kayakers enjoying their Sunday morning.  Folks have been soo browned off with all the rain we have been getting, so there was a pretty happy atmosphere all round.

I met by chance a friend of mine walking her little dog, and it was lovely catching up with her. After a while I started on my walk up the hill as I wanted to check the wild plants and the trees.  It was an ideal day for it, the sun showed the bright yellow green of the emerging sycamore leaves beautifully,  while underground there was a multitude of interesting wild plants and flowers.

It is of great interest to me lately of what is growing underneath trees as my garden is slowly becoming a forest garden due to our tree canopies growing larger and lager. 

I’m quite interested in what is happening to the trees at the moment seeing it’s Spring time.  I finally enrolled in an online course on woodland trees id. Trees in the different seasons are discussed and giving all the information to identify them in order to look up a whole lot more information about them. Encouraging nature connectedness and awareness of forest ecology. Looks like it’s going to be very interesting, especially coupled with enjoyable forest walks for practical identification.

Even the bumblebees were delighted with such a sunny beautiful day, and of course they were hungry too!