Trees and flowers

When I visited Ashley's Plantation, just outside our village, in April there were no leaves at all on the trees and the earth was bare. When I went a few days ago the trees were full of leaves and the ground was three feet high in stinging nettles and other wild plants. Using machetes, Ben, Thomas and I cleared a pathway through the plantation so that people can visit the woodland without being stung by the nettles. Whilst we were doing this Jenny and Sophie explored the hedgerows and came back with a bunch of wild flowers for the kitchen table. The photos for this blog will have to come later - I seem to have a glitch in the system!