While Canada has intense red, orange and gold autumn leaves and France has fields of lavender and sunflowers to beautify its landscape, England can claim spring as its season of loveliness. An English spring has chartreuse green and glorious bluebell woods. When in a bluebell wood, you have to imagine yourself as a lover of Keats, fresh and flushed under the verdant green of Hampstead Heath.
Keats describes the petite, unfurling bluebells the way that you could describe many English flowers, gardens and girls: 'sweet buds...with a modest pride.'
The new beech leaves were at the point before they've gained strength and still have their protective baby hairs on.
Very, very occasionally, laziness is rewarded. I bought this suede skirt at a charity shop months ago (when it was too big for me), intending to take a few inches off the waist. I never did and it has served my pregnancy waist wonderfully. I thought the belt made it a bit like a holster; I was certainly ready for a showdown in the Bluebell Wood.
Outfit: Blazer from Korea; tie blouse, Warehouse; suede skirt, charity shop in the fascinating Coventry (if you like 1950s and 60s architecture you must go); sunshine yellow ballet flats, Clarks.
What do you love about spring? If you live in the U.K., how have you been coping with the rain?
gorgeous pics - love the lavendar blazer
ReplyDeleteMy brother lives in Korea. I visited him last Easter and was incredibly jealous of all their very slick, well-fitted clothing. The lavender blazer was my effort to go native. Fortunately, it works just as well in England.
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