After Saturday’s revealing walk around the poor selection of breathing spaces in Liverpool City Centre, on Sunday we headed across the river to one of our favourite places for walking, sitting and just being, Wirral’s Shining Shore around Thurstaston. So as the working week here in the city gets underway, here’s how things are just a few miles away, where springtime is starting.
Setting off inland from where the railway station used to be.Leucojum, or Summer Snowdrop.Hawthorn coming into leaf.
Marigolds in the church yard.
Snowdrops still here.
Crocuses too.Out in the lanes, tiny Red Campion.
Sarah tells me their presence is a sign that we are in ancient woodland here.
Everything ready to burst through.
Pear blossom in the hedgerow.Thurstaston village.Into The Dungeon.
Second day running for lunch outdoors.We sit here an hour or so, reading peacefully.Walking on, blackthorn not quite ready to bloom.In a few weeks this hedgerow will be a celebration of tiny white flowers.A very still, very quiet misty day.Feeding along the edge of the channel as the tide goes out.
The birds and our trudging feet the only sounds.Ancient boulder clay cliffs now mostly gone.
2 Replies to “Breathing Free: On the Shining Shore”
Had a Lancashire weekend – Helmshore Mills, one of the museums threatened with closure (superb & must be saved!) on grey damp Saturday then Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s Brockholes reserve on gorgeous Sunday – it is fabulous! If you want breathing space and are willing to go a little further it is well worth the effort. And sells Lancashire ice cream too ;-) can recommend the toffee crunch.
Had a Lancashire weekend – Helmshore Mills, one of the museums threatened with closure (superb & must be saved!) on grey damp Saturday then Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s Brockholes reserve on gorgeous Sunday – it is fabulous! If you want breathing space and are willing to go a little further it is well worth the effort. And sells Lancashire ice cream too ;-) can recommend the toffee crunch.
Sounds great, all of it!