Spring is in the air

Categories: glasgow

Date: 20 March 2010 17:37:50

After a few days of being miserable and not myself thanks to the evil tummy bug, I felt well enough today for HD and I to take a restorative walk round Queen's Park. The sky was blue, it wasn't particularly cold, and it was really good to get out for some fresh air, and I was pleased at how I managed (yesterday I went to the post office and back - probably less than 2 minutes walk from my flat - and had to lie down afterwards as it wiped me out!).

I was also pleased to see *lots* of signs of spring - no leaves on the trees yet, but lots of crocuses, and the daffs will probably be in flower in the next week or so. At the pond we found plenty of frogspawn, and *millions* of frogs (I've put up a few other photos on my Glasgow photo blog, starting tomorrow for 3 days before the blog goes back into hibernation). I also took the chance to try out my new zoom lens and was really pleased with the result. Sorry about lowering the tone with this X-rated froggy action ("frogging"?)!

On the lower, bigger pond I was hoping to get some good photos of the two swans, but they were studiously ignoring both me and each other, and were also surrounded by the local thuggish seagulls. I did manage to capture a duck couple though - hopefully later in the year we'll see lots of ducklings.

This final picture might seem a bit bizarre, but there's a bit of a story behind it. Now I'm one of those people who usually really struggles to see shapes and forms in waves and mountain tops and things (you know, the ones which are supposed to look like a reclining woman or a lion poised to go in for the kill or whatever), but on our last walk through the park HD and I stumbled across this fallen tree and we both had the same thought at the same time.

It's a hairy coo.

Seriously! Here's a real-life one (handily pointing in the same direction) to compare.