Green Darkness

The first cool day after a week of warm sunshine. In the last few days the hedges and trees have almost visibly swelled and grown, so that the countryside looks summery rather than spring-like. And with this a green darkness has returned to the trees around here, a darkness at their very heart, a darkness around the trunk where the light cannot penetrate. This tallies with the Green Man idea - and there is a Green Man Festival soon not far from here - the idea of a presence in this greenery, an awareness. Yet the ground is still covered with bluebells and anemones, spring flowers. This is how one season fades gently into the next. Spring is winding down, and a cool evening like tonight's is a reminder of what we had just a month ago. Each season has elements of past and future within it.