Bark in the Park

I was walking our dog around Admiralty Park on Sunday morning, admiring the trees, and revelling in the variety of the colours and textures of their trunks & branches, noticing the greenness of their lichen or moss patinations, and happily observing the appearence of a first few tentative Springtime buds, when it occurred to me that I should take some photographs to record all of this marvellousness which I could then perhaps later present here on this page.

I ventured out a second time, then, dogless and with camera in hand, as the sun contended with a dilute ghosting of fog, and approached tree after tree, hastily capturing a couple of dozen pictures, but sensing my earlier enthusiasm drain away as I came to feel quite sharply self-conscious about what I was doing, and glad that there were so few people abroad to witness it… Click on the thumbnails above to see the images enlarged.