The lilacs are gone now…but we had some glorious days in May and the beginning of June.
Early morning after the farmer’s work in the field. Lovely, rich lines…
And some weeks later – we are coming up!
As the rapeseed is glowing for a couple of weeks…we have glorious days awaiting.
Showers make them lush and even more attractive.
But summer is on the march – in fact it is already here.
So, how is your summer coming along?
Leya 
Wonderful images … your summer looks delightful! 🙂
Thank you, Julie!
Beautiful!!
The change comes so quick doesn’t it – one moment spring then suddenly summer. Beautiful images
I agree, and I am a bit slow to notice immediately…
I love seeing the progression of the seasons in these photos. It’s hard to believe you will be at mid-summer in a few days.
Yes, it’s hard to believe. And I don’t want to think about summer ending again. Please stay a bit longer…
I don’t want my winter to last longer but I also don’t want your summer to be over either.
That’s just like Life, isn’t it. ♥
I love the photo of lilacs, but you really captured my heart with those curved fields and rows of hopeful plants. Thanks for sharing all this.
So glad you liked the fields, I think there is a special sensuality in them.
Summer in Cornwall is never the same as elsewhere in the UK. We have had none of the recent heatwave, but days of sunshine and then cloud or even fog! But the garden is getting lush and overgrown and instead of planting it is a time for cutting back and removing! I love long summer evenings and wish they’d never end.
Sounds just like a great summer so far, Jude! As for the wish in the end – I am totally with you.
Your summer looks stunning this year 😀
Thank you, Cee – let’s hope it will not be too hot!
I like these yellow fields, they are so beautiful.
They almost hurt to look at!
Beautiful photos Ann-Christine! I love the lines of the ploughed field, the rape filed with the moon above and the cornflower – but all the images are great and so evocative of this time of year. In London we’ve had a hot start to June after a miserable wet May, but today it’s turned cloudy and storms are on the way.
Storms…hope we don’t get them, but they usually come to us as well. Glad you enjoyed some spring!
What a beautiful field of rapeseed. We call them canola fields over here when we see them in the spring here in Australia. Enjoy your summer. We are in winter at the moment here. It is…freezing (agree with Eha in the comments) but hopefully it will pass soon 🙂
Have just subscribed to your blog . . . cannot believe I did not know about such a pearl ! You have provided me enough reading for the whole weekend 🙂 !
You are so kind, Eha. Thank you so much and have a good weekend. Take care of yourself 😊
Glad you found each other! That’s what blogging does to people!
Ah, so that is canola! Thank you for telling me. Glad you found dear Eha!
So glad to have connected with Eha. Thank you for your blog, Ann-Christine 😍
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Our summer in North Dakota started early this year with 100+ F (38 C) in early June. Normally we don’t see that kind of heat until July and August. The western part of our state is in a severe drought and those of us here in eastern North Dakota aren’t much better off, though some recent rains have helped a bit.
yhis is the thing to fight almost everywhere it seems. We are waiting for rain here, but nothing in sight…
Indeed.
I guess you have to be correct…. after all it is mid summer at the weekend. It has also for us here in middle England been a strange spring nothing like the usual cycle of growth. You mention Lilac…..very few trèes flowered and those that did dropped as soon as they appeared.
So sorry about the lilacs, david. Why did they drop? Cold, rain, drought? A pity it is.
A mix of all three not coming in the usual order. The very late frost, after a mild winter and early spring was the main culprit.
Yes. Strange it is. We had such a cold spring, and wet, that the birds had no insects to feed their young. This is not a good year for them.
True.. but even the strange situation continues. No butterflies, few insects but lots of Bees in variety. Just been talking to a friend about our gardens, some flowers are smaller than usual, stinted growth whilst others have turned into triffids. My friend has lost all his apples, lots of leaf but the frost hit the blossom.
Sounds like here. I just said to my husband we have no butterflies this year. But lots of bees now. We had butterflies early when there was a warm spell for some days. The frost returned, and I guess for too long so the butterflies could not come back easily. We’ll see when the Buddleias start if the butterflies will show up again…
Dear Ann-Christine,
we like the composition of your pictures and the colours. Great pictures 👍
Have a happy day and thanks for sharing
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thank you so much for liking them – spring colours are always wonderful.
My Swedish grandmother always grew ‘bachelor buttons,’ which looked very much like the blue flower you show here. Perhaps they reminded her of what she always called ‘the old country.’
I think it did remind her – that blue cornflower with red poppies and whith marguerites are so typical Swedish.
Love those lilacs and that wide bed of yellow flowers! Amazing creation!
Yes, thank you – the yellow almost hurts my eyes.
Absolutely beautiful! I miss lilac flowers and their perfume! Here is always summer ☀️
That is great of course, but I love our four seasons. Unfortunately they seem to be turning into two seasons only. Lilacs are some of my favourites!
We, like Lisa, are having temperatures of around 115F which is well past spring weather in my mind. I miss lilacs so I enjoyed yours immensely and the photos of the fields are so satisfying.
Thank you, Janet. I will not survive temperatures like yours – 46 degrees.
Of course we have air conditioning, otherwise it would be unbearable.
Of course – but you have to go out and buy food and other necessities.
True. Just did this today. If there’s shade, I park in it even if I have to walk some distance. We have those sunscreens that you put up inside your windshield when you park which also helps. But it is hot. 🙂
Yes, we have those as well – good for the dogs too.
Wow! Amazing photography, use of the rule of thirds! The pictures tell their own story!
Thank you for commenting.
Ah, well, summer is here now 😊
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Interesting to see how the weather differs around the world! We are breaking records this week. Our temp read 115 degrees. Fortunately, it is forecasted to drop to about 105 next week. Your photos are so very beautiful. Hoping for good monsoon rains to arrive in the next few weeks 🙏🙏🙏
115 – 46! I could not survive that! Glad to hear it will drop soon.
🥵 Me too! …but it’s a dry heat! Our thermometer says 2% humidity in late afternoon.
Good
Lovely A-C. My Summer is a few months away but my Winter days are like your Summers today will be 24C 🙂
A perfect temperature for our summer days! 24!
Smiling at your beautiful summer photos from freezing eastern Australia . . . well, Swedish friends grin as we have every heater on with midday temperatures ‘only’ 18 C !!! Cannot wait for the thirties to return !! Absolutely love your rapeseed fields and am smiling at your cornflower photo . . . remember such together with poppies in the fields in my childhood Estonia . . . lovely . . .
I also live in eastern Australia and agree, it is freezing. I also can’t wait for the thirties to return. In the meantime like you I will have the heater on at home this winter. Take care.
. . . and you . . . 🙂 !!
Ah, always good now i have conjured up som e childhood memories!
We had a week of heatwave and I thought perhaps that was what the whole summer was going to be like. But now we are back to normal temperatures and it is lovely. All we need is some rain for the farmers crops. Our neighbour farmers have corn and wheat growing and they need rain.
It’s the same here in Norfolk. Fortunately we had a little rain tonight.
Lucky you.
Yes, glad you are back to normal – here we are choking on the heat now – but they have promised normal temperatures later in the week. Dry it is.