Here in Shropshire, May has been a month filled with much welcome sunshine. Everywhere you look, the countryside is brimming with green-ness, so no colour enhancement was needed for this view across the River Severn at Arley (just south of Bridgnorth). It was taken last Saturday at the Arley Arboretum Plant Collectors’ Fair – post to follow.
I’m sorry you can’t see the river, which is actually quite wide at this point (hiding behind the foreground hawthorns). Nor can you see the railway line that runs midway across the frame. For this is the landscape through which you will pass if you have the good fortune to board the Severn Valley Railway, and chug along the river behind a good old coal-fired locomotive, trailing its long white steamy banner as it goes, and not a few smuts. Clackety-clack and much toot-tooting and many a rustic halt en route. Oh, the nostalgia!
Thursday’s Special: saturation
How Green Was My Valley a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn set in Wales: tales of the Morgan coal mining family. Also a 1941 John Ford film.
Tish Farrell 
i love this beautiful green expanse –
One of my favourite places and it’s so nice to have had a sunny May
Hasn’t it been wonderful – the sunny MAY. Bet it’s v. beautiful in your neck of the woods.
Yes and yes although there’s a spot of rain today.
And only a spot too. The garden’s looking a bit thirsty.
Simply beautiful, Tish. I must get ABAB across to Shropshire! I vaguely remember the film, How Green was my Valley – mum and dad liked it – but have never read the book. Very apt for your shots though.
Thanks, Mike.
Greener than New Zealand, that clean green country, going to be a good hay/silage year I think
That’s so green and beautiful
It was also a BBC series that Mike was in 😀
Brilliant!
The different shades of green make this landscape photo a masterpiece, Tish!
That’s a lovely comment, Peter. Thank you.
Your valley is magnificently green. Looking outside, it is magnificently green here, too. A few days of sunshine and the world totally changes!
Gladdens the heart, doesn’t it – the way things can change for the better.
Such a lovely landscape. And very Saturated, for sure.
It’s amazing it’s so green. We’ve had no proper rain for weeks. But then we did have deluge all winter.
More geology, hydrology
…and it sure is green!
I love the first green of Spring. There are untold number of hues.
Yes, so many shades, Beverly.
So lush and green – you have wonderful, soft and green landscapes where you live!
Been amazing this year, Leya. Partly perhaps because of the late spring. Everything’s rushing to bloom all at once.
It is the same here. The Lilacs are over and so are all wild bushes and many trees. Rhododendrons will not last more than another week. In a way it is like in Norrland up north. Their short summer is off in a rush.
The short answer of course is “very.” And extremely lovely with it.
I remember my mother weeping buckets as she watched the film of HGWMV on tv when I was a kid. At the time I thought she was just being soppy, but now I know that her own father and uncles were all miners in Fife, and the storyline was probably a bit close to the bone.
Ah. The things we find out later.
oh what a great shot Tish – saturated with memories as used to take this steam rail from Kidderminster and picnic with my children here or at Highley
“But you have gone now, all of you that were so beautiful when you were quick with life. Yet not gone, for you are still a living truth inside my mind. “(Richard Llewellyn)
Thank you for that fine addition, Laura – both your memories and the very apt quotation.
There isn’t a green like an English countryside.
”And did those feet … in ancient times …. etc . You know the rest , I’m sure?
It’s a very wet countryside today. Which is good. No need to go watering at the allotment.
feast for eyes.
Thank you, Klara.
That is the greenest of greens. 🙂
So much lushness 🙂
Wonderfully green.
You evoke the scene so vividly and economically.
Oh, I loved “How green was my valley”. I even found myself following the linguistic patterns he used to express “Welsh”.
I must read it. It was one of my mother’s favourite books.
Green is my favourite colour, it gladdens the heart. I had read the book long back,
How lovely that you have read Precious Bane. I’m just re-reading it now. And I agree about green – a very nourishing colour.
I have not read Precious Bane 😊but I will soon .
I’ve not read it either. The hawthorn is going wild this year, as are most things, Tish. 🙂 🙂 And I’ve ridden that train, many long years ago.
I don’t think you are appearing in my Reader any more. Me suspects WP high jinks! 😦
Just saw you’d re-followed. WP having another wobble! And as for the hawthorn – yes, it’s going bonkers too.
Spring came late here this year, so I enjoy seeing photos of anything this green. (It’s finally green here too, but I don’t often see this much of it in the city!) What gorgeous views, Tish!
Glad to bring you plenty of greenery, Susan.
Ahh a beautiful green English scene – and we know what makes it green don’t we? apart from the photo edit 🙂
Oh, yes. And we had buckets full of it in the night.
A wonderful capture, Tish. The spirit of spring.
🙂 Thank you, Helen.
Your nostalgic description made me see the train and the river in my mind’s eye, but I can’t seriously imagine this image to be any more perfect! What a gorgeous saturation!
Lovely, Paula and your v. kind comments. And lovely to hear from you. I’m thinking you’re disappearing under a mountain of work. Hugs and commiserations.