Pinks and blues

Well it's blue bell festival time. This is the English blue bell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) not the American bluebell (Mertensia virginica), which is an unwelcome invasive here.

While we were in Portugal, the glen came to life as all the trees leafed out. Descending from Crawfordsburn down to the lough is like being suspended in a pointillist painting, with little green beech leaf dots swimming around you. While checking my spelling, I see that pointillism was: "developed by Seurat with the aim of producing a greater degree of luminosity and brilliance of colour." And that is how the glen feels.

The blue bells are most intense near the lough but they are spinkled throughout the glen. Along the shores of the lough, another flower has appeared, thrift, or sea pink.

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