I read this challenge on Saturday evening after going for two walks with my phone. The Future, how to portray it? The photo I’d like to share is of a burgeoning horse chestnut shoot. I had a little difficulty finding a fairly uncluttered background for this shot. The sticky buds have begun to reveal the furled palmate leaves and the flower buds, which I associate with the month of May. From this picture we can look forward a month to fully open leaves and trees with white or pink candles.
Coincidentally a blogger I have found through the A to Z challenge has horse chestnut flowers on his post for H.
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This is quite far on – our trees here haven’t reached this stage yet (and we are in South Midlands!) However my flowering shrubs like the Berberis are out now.
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It is strange how there are local variations. We saw hawthorn leaves over 3 weeks ago near Cockermouth. Here there are hardly any.
Other horse chestnuts in more exposed positions are not as advanced.
Sue
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Very true: even in our road, which curves considerably, some gardens facing other ways will have flowers out long before others. Mine is a late, East-facing garden: my friend whose garden faces south is early.
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