May is drenched with green.
cloud grey
twilight blue
cream
green shadowed
transparent green
new lit green
buttercup
deep pink
violet blue
1st
A bright windblown day.
Glossy with green.
2nd
Mist over yellow fields.
Bluebells blow in the grasses.
3rd
In the evening woods, a little deer leapt
away through the trees into green shadows.
Bluebells a twilight haze of shaded blue.
4th
Grey green day, heavy with rain.
Creamy white horse chestnut blossoms and hawthorn.
The fresh green of May,
clouded with shadow and woodsmoke.
Song of rainfall, singing of birds.
5th
Stately elegance of green under a clouded sky.
Horse chestnuts stand deep shadowed and still —
rained drenched in grey.
6th
A blue mist day.
Hills a subdued green.
Muted chestnut candles in the drifting air.
7th
Sweet cascading rain.
Cow parsley, radiant with jewelled drops
bowed low in the lane.
Red campions in the hedgerow — a scatter of pale and deep pinks.
8th
Clouds blown high above the hills,
lit amber and ink shadowed in the sunset.
Grass full and curved with rain.
Starry dandelion seeds drift.
9th
Barley is soft and pale, rising over dark earth.
It begins to bow and bend under the wind —
lit with evening.
10th
Copper fronds of sorrel stand sentry among new green.
Buttercups shine.
11th
I walked in the wind.
Cow parsley moving in the shaken air.
White butterflies rose up among the grasses.
A tapestry of flowers edged the lane.
12th
Apple blossom in the gold of morning.
Bright fields — green and still, shadows long.
13th
Clouds rising blue lit and sculpted over yellow fields.
14th
Rain.
Sweet, cold.
Hills misted blue and green.
15th
I walked the steep path to the woods past a copse of newly green beech and field maple.
Beneath, the bright grass was starred with celandines.
Above, the sky wide and sunlit.
16th
Blue shadowed woods.
Shimmering leaves of new beech.
17th
In the woods,
beneath a delicate glow
of beech and pale sky,
the bluebells are intense and pooled blue.
Lit paths trace patterns among the trees.
18th
Rain in the early morning.
Sweet grass.
Haze of beech lit light.
Creamy white hawthorn in the hedges.
19th
Bluebell woods misted and rain softened.
Trees drifting blues.
Beech leaves transparent green.
20th
White apple blossom.
Windblown and sharply fragrant.
21st
At the field’s edge,
wild cherry —
white petals and amber leaves
lace with hazel branches in a grey radiance of sky.
22nd
An evening full of blossom and rain
23rd
Fields gauzy with buttercups.
May blossom creamy on laden branches.
Lanes brimming over with red campions and cow parsley.
24th
Cow parsley fills the lanes.
Delicate stars on etched stems —
tracing the fields along the stream.
25th
The evening is a pale gold haze.
Grasses hover, delicate and tall — patterned with
blues and rose, bronze and ochre, lavenders and ash green.
26th
The orchard is quiet and still.
Sweet cut grass
in pale swathes beneath late apple blossom.
The meadow is drifted with ox-eye daisies —
still and poised in the evening air.
27th
Trees creamy with May blossom above the hedgerows.
Hillsides golden with buttercups.
Drifts of cow parsley fringe the lanes.
28th
May blossom on the hawthorns curves weighted bows.
Shadows pool beneath the trees.
29th
Sweet cascading rain.
Cow parsley, radiant with wet
bowing low over the lane.
Clouds rising in the sunset,
lit with amber and shadowed blue.
3oth
May blossom and green.
Wind in the grasses, falling and rising.
Sunshine glossing the fields.
31st
A day of leaves and light, blowing in the wind.