Changes

I last photographed these trees at the end of March. Then the branches were bare, the sky was grey and the ground was frosty.

What a change now! The trees are green, the sky is blue with fluffy white clouds, and the ground is covered in newly flowering oilseed rape which shines in the sun.

Oilseed rape may not be what many of us think of as a traditional English crop, but you have to admit that the increase in its cultivation here has brightened the landscape at this time of year.