#258 - Convolvulus on Bramble Leaf

It's been more than a year now, since I started this blog-journey. A form of conscious thankfulness for my everyday surroundings. My most common emotion has been astonishment - amazement that I could have lived so long and noticed so little. Just over a year later and the year has turned full circle, and once again I am astonished. How could I have forgotten that the blackberry leaves can turn such a gorgeous full-bodied crimson, against which the brilliant green of the convolvulus leaves strikes a perfect dissonance?

#256 - Blackberries Ripening

We can't walk anywhere at the moment without the children stopping to pick blackberries and, when we think we've exhausted one patch, we find another just ripening, the berries scarlet and black, pinpricks of light gleaming in the wild sprays of bramble which trail overhead and underfoot.

#227 - Bramble Sepals on Birch

I saw these enchanting, twisty, five-pointed stars caught in the brambles today, in shades of green and pink.

#100 - Blackberry flower

An audacious blackberry flower - in December! I have concluded that the bramble is absolutely without any sense of propriety. I rather like it's bold, bad style and am happy to celebrate 100 days of looking at the beautiful with this humble, hedgerow pest which seems to embody all that has been surprising about this hundred day journey. 

#21 - Trailing Brambles

I was trying to find a sheltered place  to photograph some leaves the day before yesterday, as the wind kept whisking them off just when I had them arranged, and I came across a little mossy nook covered with trailing brambles, their crimson stalks tangling over the green floor. Went back to photograph them yesterday which was a rainy day but I think I like the contrast of the wet, glossy stems on the matt bed of moss. 

#20 - Pink Edges

As the season turns, pink is whispering up the edges of the blackberry leaves. Leaves die so beautifully.

#6 - Blackberries

Three shades of green...