Resilience is about knowing which way is up

Always look up, and never give up

As I was wending my way through the woods this week, (wondering how many w words I could fit in a sentence), I stumbled across this incredibly resilient tree.

And in close-up:

A tree that would not give up, nor be held back from reaching its destiny.

There’s a lesson for us there, I think. If I’d posted this yesterday, you might have mistaken this for an April Fool’s joke, but it’s real, I promise.

I was taking a snap of some apple blossom and noticed a determined little ladybird almost invisible among the flower buds.

Did it fly there or climb, I wonder? It seems to blend in pretty well. I’m tempted to start a series on mini-beasts hiding in plain sight.