“The richest, fullest time of year is when June is wearing to an end, when one knows without the almanac that spring is over and gone.”
W.H. Hudson
Hampshire Days 1903
The tree has finally burst fully into leaf, the oak being always the last to bud burst. It’s been a dry and warm June causing problems for the local shepherd as all the springs have run dry and water has to be taken to the sheep in the fields.
a lens in the landscape 