Storm Hannah was a very unwelcome guest in late April. This deep depression unleashed 82 mph winds onto the Welsh coastline. A windspeed only a few degrees lower careered into this part of the Somerset coast. With the garden battered and the gale subsiding enough to allow for upright walking again, we decided to venture to the Mendip Hills. It was still windy when we arrived at the Rocky Mountain nursery to mooch among the plants, which by then were mostly horizontal, waiting to be up righted. Perusal over, off to Downend near Wells, a recce for Julie to find a horse riding centre. Both chores completed I stopped for a short while at Becon Hill Wood to take a photograph. The image can never represents the perfect glorious light green of newly emerged leaves at this time of the year, nor the strong wind steamrolling through the branches. But I tried; even though post Storm Hannah, many of those delicate leaves were now festooned on terra firma.
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