Camel Green Blossom

We usually see Hawthorn as a hedgerow shrub, regularly controlled and contained by the hedge layer and flail. Or as a manicured and tamed garden feature, like yesterday's Crimson Hawthorn. Out here in the forest though they've no such constraints, and make the most of their freedom, filling the understory with clusters of white flowers, reaching their blooms towards the sky.  You notice that through the year everything has it's moment to shine in the forest. Now it's the Hawthorn's time.

Hawthorns

The Hawthorns are in full bloom throughout the forests woodland, whichever direction you look their clean white blossom shines. It's at this time of the year that you realize just how big a part of the forests matrix, and how abundant, they are. 

May Blossom

Right on cue the forest's queens of May come into bloom.

May

The delicate beauty and intricacy of nature never ceases to create wonder. It doesn't matter how many times you see stuff in nature (Hawthorn blossom in this case), it's always magical as if you're seeing it again for the first time. Thanks nature.