Firstly, I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year. I hope 2022 lets you find kindness at every turn.
Continuing with my 12 days of Christmas wild things, today we went on a community sponsored 8 km walk to raise funds for a new community park in our small village. Despite being a grey day it brought lots of laughter and joy.
You may notice in the photograph above that the gorse (bush with yellow flowers) is already blooming. This plant does flower early, but 31 December seems particularly early. We also saw quite a few dandelions in bloom, Herb-Robert and the hogweed shown in the photograph below (with accompanying mating flies).
At least the trees look like they should in winter.
A big thank you to all the blogging community out there for your continued support and comments. I look forward to reading your blogs in 2022.
Happy New Year
Murtagh's Meadow 
Early blooms, maybe we’re skipping winter and heading straight into spring??
Whatever lays ahead, wishing you a peaceful and healthy new year.
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Thank you Eliza. The very same to you.
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The trees in monochrome look great 😀
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Thank you Brian
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Even here Nature appears to be trying to regain its balance with a number of plants flowering earlier or later than is ‘usual’.
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I suspect it is happening in most places.
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Happy Healthy New Year Karina!
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Thank you and very same to you🙂
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Lovely though it is to see flowers in December, it’s worrying when they are the wrong ones. Happy New Year though.
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I agree. But yes let’s hope that things change in 2022.
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I was reading in a BSSI tweet about plants flowering early (or later than they should). In my garden, there have been dandelions and in the nature reserve by our house I wouldn’t be surprised to see gorse in bloom.
Happy New Year!
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Yes I saw those BSSI tweets too.
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Happy New Year! Let’s hope it’s a better year for all of us.
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Happy new year. Yes let’s hope for better 2022
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Happy New Year Karina. It feels more like a breezy autumn than winter here at the moment.
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Thank you Andrea. Yes here too, very mild, but the weather people say it will get colder later in the week
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And what a backdrop for your walk and it’s wonderful cause.
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We hope it will be an annual event
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