Today is #EarthDay and I bring some - often overlooked but beautiful nonetheless - Ground ivy in celebration. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

I’m wishing a - slightly belated - #HappyEaster to all who celebrate. As we’re a multi-denominational household we have Easter flowers for the Easter dinner table and a slightly more pagan spring tree in the living room! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

Newly opened Wych elm leaves, looking like bright green caterpillars, make me so happy. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

One of the few flowers in the garden that have survived my beneficent neglect over the last five years are these miniature tulips. And I adore them! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

This morning I was asked to judge this robin’s best angle but I simply can’t decide. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy #Birds🪶 #EuropeanRobin
PS I didn’t need zoom to take these, he really was this close!

On Monday’s walk I managed to capture a few seconds of a nuthatch snacking on some insects in the knot of a tree. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy #Birds🪶

It’s a bit grey today but that hasn’t dimmed the loveliness. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

Got myself out for a morning walk at Attingham before the forecast rain appears and was rewarded with many spectacular views, my favourite being this freshly leafed oak. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy #BlueSkyMonday

The view from my bed through the window, plus some close ups. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

The osmanthus in the garden is covered in flowers and also - although not pictured - bees. It also appears to be a morning of butterflies - brimstone, orange tip, cabbage white, common blue, red admiral - and Wrens shouting at me from the shrubbery. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy