A cooler chilly post bank holiday day. Noticing all the bloomed filled bushes, by colour and by scent.
A full year since I started Walk 202, I remember being delighted to find this Californian Lilac in West Pottergate, as one of favourites from walk 206. Enjoying it again this year, such beautiful cascading delicate purple colour.
Many paths and gates becoming plant filled and having to duck/ dive and circumvent to avoid becoming ensnared.
After a week of sun the blossom trees are starting to bloom and green budding growth is filling the trees.
Not quite as warm and sunny today, but still very pleasant to be out delivering parcels and mail.
Hoorah for the spring.
Just me on the delivery today, so walking the loops with just the packets in the bags. April showers in their full glory, beautifully sunny one moment, full typhoon next. Drenched early on, a couple of packets became so wet their contents fell out. Learning my lesson I sat out the second shower and was dry by the end of the delivery.
Happy to discover this Santa Barbara ceanothus on this delivery, one of my favourite bushes. Particularly splendid in the spring.
A damp busy Wednesday. The morning began with heavy rain but it lifted into occasional drizzle.
Enjoyed this two tone heather in Plantsman’s Close and the scent of this Japanese Skimmia in Lime tree road was delightful. A bright shock of orange blooms on this Darwins Barberry caught my eye.
A gift of a day, strong clear light the blossom trees were singing.
A lighter Saturday, a great day to be a Postie.
A rudeness of day, it rained, drizzled and damped unstintingly in wintery type temperatures. Finished the walk cold and demoralised.
Luckily the flowers and garden were there to cheer and birds sang unstintingly despite the rain !!
I got caught photographing this purple edged leafed bush by my customer who was sitting in her car watching me!! I also couldn’t resist rephotographing this clematis in Mount Pleasant which is so very exquisite.
A glory of a spring day, a Japanese Pieris with little translucent dots inside, a Bossiers glory-of-the-snow catching the sunlight in Newmarket Road and a the magnificent plum tree at 97 glowing in the sunlight.
Perfect conditions to cover the 20k needed to deliver all the mail today on walks 206 and 211. Finished on time 🙂
Some sun, not warm. A pop of pink, a forlorn lost mitten, a magnolia blossom poised.
A light mail day, only 17,000 steps. 10,000 less than the walk last Thursday.
Today: Hawthorn blossom in Plantsman Close was looking beautiful, starting to fall and the pavements looked snow dusted with the blossom. Fence pattern, Mount Pleasant.
Another overcast but mild(ish) day. Again a lighter day, we get finished, still feeling good to be delivering everything each day.
Ginny Bain 