Beatrice Grovesさんのイラストまとめ
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Alder catkins now fully open, blowing in the wind.
The tiny cerise ovals of this year's flowers are gathered in sprays alongside last year's black cones🖤💗💛
This was always one of my favourite flower fairies as a child!
My first celandine of the year & Cicely Mary Barker's delightful celandine flower fairy💛
The flower's name comes from 'chelidonia' (Latin for swallow) as its flowering was thought to coincide with the bird's arrival in the spring.
Alder catkins now fully open, in all their saffron/cerise glory. As with hazels, small pink flowers are gathered above the catkins. These female flowers will become the trees distinctive black cones (usually last years are still visible, as in the Flower Fairy illustration).
'But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful'
(W.B. Yeats, 'The Wild Swans at Coole)
Swans by the #Oxford canal, glowing in the evening light.
The name celandine is from the Latin 'chelidonia' (Swallow) as its flowering was thought to coincide with the bird's spring arrival. It's an etymology that is perfect for the winged charm of Cicely Mary Barker's celandine flower fairy.
@hertskingfisher The shot on the left is just astonishing. And in its spareness, with just the kingfisher and branch, it also reminds me of Ruskin's lovely sketch in the Ashmolean.
