Bluebells Up Close

  In April, one particular house has a yard crowded with bluebells. Stately old trees shade this house in summer but now they are just beginning to form leaves. It's the perfect woodland environment for bluebells. I get down to flower level and study the elongated bells and the tight pink buds. The half-opened flowers shade seamlessly from pink to blue. Any dyer would be proud to achieve such results. Soon the trees will leaf out and the bells will drop into the soil. But the magical bells will return next spring.