It almost feels like Summer

The weather is beautiful today! A lovely day for a patrol of Colinton and Craiglockart Dells alongside the Water of Leith.

The wild garlic is blooming now and smells and looks wonderful

The horse chestnut trees are also fully in bloom now and looking beautiful

and the larch flowers continue their slow and steady development towards becoming cones

Later in the morning I saw lots of orange tip butterflies, though none stopped for long enough for me to photograph them.