Fern season

Bright young bracken fronds filling the frame in green light

For about two weeks in June the bracken is new, soft and impossibly green, before it turns into the tough stuff that grabs your ankles for the rest of the year.

A single fern frond in sharp focus beside a blurred beech trunk
One frond, one trunk, everything else soft.

I spent an afternoon crawling around at fern height. My knees have opinions about that now.

1 thought on “Fern season”

  1. Anke

    So fresh. That second one is beautiful.

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