DERELICT SUNDAY - THREE ABSTRACTS AND A FOAL

As we haven't been out that much in the last few months - like many others, I know, we decided to go for a drive today, as it was a beautiful Spring day.  Although we didn’t go walking, we drove 85 miles and saw some lovely countryside without going too far although we did pass through three counties, our own Wiltshire, Hampshire and West Berkshire.  

It was great to see the leaves on the trees, in different shades of green and we even saw some “candles” on a horse chestnut tree - much more advanced than any near us and of course, plenty of hawthorn and dogwood, with their white blossoms.  The oil seed rape is coming on well and soon the fields will be ablaze with yellow.  We also saw lots of beautiful wild flowers - Spring is certainly here now.  

I decided to “cheat” a bit with my abstracts and put three into a collage - so you have at the clockwise from the left the first abstract - a piece of wood on the top of an old pallet that I think looks like a sheep’s head - so some pareidolia there.  

Next is the azure blue sky, with some wispy abstract clouds - there was still a chilly nip in the air, but we were well wrapped up and in the sun and out of the wind, it was quite warm.

At the bottom is a beautiful little foal that we saw in a paddock in front of a very large house.  We had watched the mother sheltering the foal from the sun for sometime, and this was the moment it struggled to get to its feet - I have never seen a foal this young before, so that was a real treat.  

Next is a derelict tree, which again looked good against the lovely azure blue sky and in the middle of the collage is part of a pylon, which I thought made another good abstract.

I’m going to have to change the way I count my 100 Abstracts if I do more than one a day!

“But now the clouds in airy tumult fly;
     the sun, emerging, opes an azure sky;  
          a fresher green the smiling leaves display, 
and glittering as they tremble, cheer the day.
          
Thomas Parnell - 1679-1718
Irish-born Poet and Clergyman