22nd Jan

The task of taking photos every day has been continuing for me since the 8th January. I picked my spots at the same time as the children were picking theirs.

I am photographing:

Horse chestnut

-top of the tree to see the leaves grow.

Under the horse chestnut tree.

I know that bulbs will grow there because I planted them -I’m just not sure exactly where they will pop up.

Witch Hazel -should have lovely yellow flowers on bare stems early in the spring. I’m hoping that they will come out pretty early.

Cherry trees and lane.

There will be daffodils and cherry blossom coming out through the spring.

There are loads of bulbs on the bank -again, I’m not sure where they’ll grow.

I’m also photographing some of the branches of the cherry tree.

 Lilacs.

Under one of the cherry trees the lilac bush is fragrant and vigorous -I am hoping for some spectacular blossom.

Whitebeam

I am photographing this in two directions -top and upwards.

the whitebeam is usually one of the earliest trees to come into leaf and the leaves are an amazing pale soft silvery green -a really beautiful tree.

Sycamore

I can see the sycamore tree from inside my studio -it is my default view so I am always conscious of how it changes through the seasons. I would like to photograph these changes this year.

 My left hand -fingernails growing

I thought that it would be interesting to show how I am changing during this process. Fingernails are fast growing -will there be more movement there than in the buds and blossoms?

Meanwhile……

The task of taking photos every day has been continuing for the children in Donaghey as well. Mrs Wilson says that it has been really good -there will be a lot of photos by the end of this. The children have made a big map and marked the places where they did their sound recordings and where they are taking their photos every day.

The children wanted me to listen to the recordings they had made and also to look at their photos.