72 micro-seasons 20

Janey...

Basking in the unexpected warmth, buttercups under the chin

Jane...

Hazy green hills let the dawn fall how it will.

Beverley...

The huge chestnuts are full of leaf and weighted with countless blossoms; along the path white campion is arriving.

Helen...

Young beech leaves spill lime-green light on the road - nearby a hillock is brimming with bluebells.

Kit...

Dandelion clocks shed time as we cycle the banks of the Danube, salbei-blue with wild sage

72 micro-seasons...19

Janey...

High above our heads the copper beech twirls and swirls its verdigris skirts in the breeze

Kit...

In the neat spring green of the Altmuhtal, giant snails cross our damp path, a fleet of small purposeful tugboats.

Beverley...

Hedgerows are full of the froth of hawthorn and the chattering of unseen birds: robins, wrens and greenfinches, blue tits, blackbirds and thrush.

Helen...

Young leaves glint and wink - shining raindrops have gathered - pale light gleaming through.

Jane...

Beech and bluebell: a cathedral of new green and indigo.

72 micro-seasons 18

Janey...

Away from the breeze, hawthorn blossoms in the sheltering hedgerows

Beverley...

The last April sky has let fall all thought of cloud while the elder offers up its first sweet-scented palms.

Jane...

The south wind blew cold last night but change is in the air.

Helen...

Warm winds at last - Green alkanet opens her dozens of dark blue eyes and stares, amazed, at Spring.

Kit...

Early Eden, a gather of pink-hosed greylag natter on shallow rocks - mayfly, hovering low, bring in the new month