Hospice Cherry Trees

tree and leaf sketches
Hospice grounds

Flowering cherry (or some other kind of Prunus?) at the hospice this morning.

Blackbirds are singing, wood pigeons occasionally perch in the branches but the most remarkable bird was a red kite, seen from the car park.

Crystal Dendrite

crystals
Crystal dendrite on flagstone

In a flagstone just outside John’s patio windows, these dendritic crystals look like the fossil of a tree but they’re actually crystals – perhaps of manganese as they’re black – that have grow across the layers of this flagstone, in a similar from to the ice crystals in a snowflake.