Steel magnolias

Although there are many here in the UK complaining about the wet weather I, for one, am happy that we aren’t experiencing the usual frosts at the end of March that usually kill off the blooms of our magnolia trees. For once they are showing a magnificent display day-after-day and it is therefore only fitting that I tried to capture their glory before their fragile petals naturally fall off and make our driveway like a skating rink, as they do every year.

Fun fact: The film ‘Steel Magnolias’ was so-called to capture the complex mix of steeliness and fragility exhibited by the women portrayed.

Footnote: Only a few days after I wrote this post a northerly wind appeared and two days of light frost caught the top of the larger tree.