#315 - New Nettle Leaves

By the gateway into the park there's a tree that is always first with it's leaves and yesterday I saw it was fully green - that bright, singing green that the newest leaves have. Everything else is so nearly there, a week of sunshine and the year is going to tip into colour... Stepped over these new nettles growing up through the grass and couldn't help stopping to look more closely.

#56 - Dock and Nettles

My seven year old has been saying for some time that she wants to make a picture out of nettles which made me see them rather differently as I had not particularly noticed anything picture-worthy about them before. Saw these wonderful speckledy dock leaves on my walk today with frilled edges which I thought would highlight the toothed edge of the nettle leaves, and of course, docks and nettles always go together...