Blog Posted,

breakfast eaten,

and I was out, here to Kew Gardens,

I had called by to photograph the magnolia blossoms, a quick look at the maintenance/window cleaners ladder on the Palm House, 

a huge burr on the trunk of this tree, 

and here they are, 

the first of the magnolias that I saw today, 

I should say, 

I have not played with any of these, 

they are all as they are straight out of the camera, 

if you are interested in calling here for similar photographs, 

it is I am guessing just a tad past midway for the flowering season,

some have already finished, 

some of these past their best, 

with a hang dog look,

the good news is that everywhere you look there are trees with flowers, 

but alas many have already shed a sea of petals,

these absolutely magnificent, 

but as I mentioned there are still a lot of trees still in bud, 

so many that hopefully next week when Diana has a day off we will call back,

back to today, 

there are of course so many varieties, 

I will not even try to tell you their names, 

all I know,

is that as the sun came out of a gloomy grey day, 

I was happy I had decided to come today, 

also to make sure there would still be plenty of blooms here for next week, 

on the down side, 

these are pretty much the last of the daffodils, many beds here well past their best, these are just a few of the hundreds of photographs I took, I will be spending the next few weeks playing with 2 or 3 a day,

in the late afternoon I started to leave the gardens, a last look at the Palm House, 

and the formal gardens in front of it, what a great day out, arriving home home it was feet up for a sandwich then I was out again, 

to the Bricklayers Arms, in Beckenham,

the Nature Group of the Beckenham Photographic Society meet there for the bi-monthly meetings, above one of the posters I put up the week before the meeting, I have to say the images that other members of the group brought along to display on a lap top were superb, from caterpillars to birds with dragon and damselflies not to mention a few mini toadstools or fungi perhaps, along the way, I wish I had some to put on here they were just so impressive, our next meeting will take place on May 12th. at the Elm Tree in Elmers End, meeting over I popped over the road to pick up some Butterkist popcorn in TESCO Express, then on to a number 54 bus home arriving before Diana, when she arrived I had a surprise for her, at Kew station on the way home I had brought 7 different buns and cakes from the lady selling them there, we had a bit of a laugh when I said, "3 months ago my wife and myself called here, it was a Monday, can you remember what she bought?" well we both thought it was funny! Diana was so happy with the cakes, a few of which she nibbled as we watched a Endeavour before we were off to bed.