Note to self...

Get out more! Relying on the garden again today and I left it late so ended up with a horribly grainy shot. This is damson blossom and is the first blossom of the season to appear in our garden. It has gone mad this year so there will be tons of damsons - I don't like them so good news for the birds. We went out to see 'The Monuments Men' last night (well the night of the 23rd!) hence the lack of commenting. It was fun - nice actors, interesting story, a few attempts to reference the great war film classics - but it won't trouble the awards ceremonies....

[Janna E.]

I really like the background colours here! Was thinking about seeing that movie as it sounded interesting. Might give it a pass though, we don't have time to go the movies anyways.

[Lindsay]

I saw some similar to this - perhaps it was this? - on our dog walk this morning. Really pretty, I like this shot. I quite fancied seeing that film as I remember they filmed some of it at Duxford but I saw several not so great reviews and was a bit put off it.

[june milner]

snap. we went this afternoon . Good enough as you say

[hueymilunz]

lovely!

[Rosie White-Hlouveraki]

Beautifully shot!

[Judith Greenwood]

@lindsaydaisyboo Ooh I remember that now - drat - will have to watch it again - there were a few aeroplane scenes so I'm guessing... As @june says, 'Good enough' - not a waste of money and not depressing or harrowing as several of our recent choices have been! My 'critique' would be that they seemed to want to make a light-hearted, heading towards funny film but the subject matter didn't always allow it so every so often there was conflict - the sad bits were properly sad (and I will cry at ANYthing) and it didn't quite build up into a comedy. But still not a waste of money and I learnt a lot.

[Judith Greenwood]

@june @lindsaydaisyboo Sorry - the sad bit were NOT properly sad!

[Judith Greenwood]

@jannaellen And Germany gets a knocking again ;0)

[Alison Tomlin]

Pretty colours. You could make damson jam?

[Rosie Kind]

Lovely shot. We used to have damson trees in our garden when I was a child and my mum used to make damson pies and they were yummy!

[Jan Hall]

Love the colours in the background here.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

So pretty and delicate looking.

[Jill Peck Vona]

great elegance

[Helene]

lovely picture

[Hazel]

You could make damson gin.

[Phil Howcroft]

i did an apricot blossom on sunday, but i've not uploaded it yet ...this is a nice blossom shot though judith

[Shanne]

that's pretty nice composition
(glad to hear The Monument Men is worth watching - I have an injured student who can't do the promised weekly skating and am planning films instead, took him to see Gravity yesterday)

[Anja]

Lovely flower and beautiful background, too.

[JH]

I made a damson chutney a year or two back and it was passable, but I like the idea of damson gin more.

This is pretty. I keep seeing blossom everywhere all of a sudden - noticed all the may was out this weekend.