After 72 hours of nearly constant rain and heavy overcast which prevented any warmth from reaching the soil the wind changed and spring arrived. The weather forecasters assure me that it's going to last in the region of 10 days or more although somewhat unusually that it won't be as warm here as it is several hundred miles north in Newport Pagnell.
No matter, there is blue sky and solar heat, it's a relief.
Still a bit breezy for butterflies, if any have survived these last two apocalyptic months of dreadful cold and wet, but small flying insects like this hoverfly on a strawberry flower are out and about for a good feed.
This orange-red bottomed bumble bee is, I think, a queen Bombus Lapidarius. There were a couple of them about foraging greedily on the clover.
And there you have it. If my resown seeds come up, if the weather holds and if I don't go mad with the isolation this year, the season has begun. Roll on summer.
1 comment:
Such a pretty bee - with such vivid colouring.
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