Leigh984, The creative portfolio of Leigh Spencer

  On BBC East Midlands Today a Weather Watcher photo from a viewer featured a spectacular bright red Poppy field noting its location as Witherley a small village in Leicestershire and only 20 mins drive from home one evening we set off to find and capture the stunning sight. As we arrived on the edge of the village the low hum of drones and sight of multiple parked cars told us we where close, sure enough through glimpses in the hedge we saw flashes of red colour, parking in an open gateway we where greeted by a spectacular carpet of bright red poppies stretching as far as our eyes could see. In the distance the village church spire could just be seen over the hedges and the birds where singing in the hedgerows and trees around us. Soon as the evening sun began to cast long shadows and back lit the flowers, bees moved buzzing between them and various smaller insects completed the scene. Overhead a plane makes a trail through a near cloudless sky as the warm graduations of sunset ...

A look at the flowers and tributes left at Green Dragon Square, Leicester in memory of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II who passed away on the 8th September 2022 at her Balmoral estate.  RIP your Majesty and Thank You. 

  Easter in Newbold verdon (Leicestershire) sees crosses covered in springtime flowers displayed at the churches in the village marking the new life this period of the year brings.  Featured are the methodist and Baptist churches.

I visited a small area of woodland sandwiched between several busy roads and a motorway junction near to fosse park in Leicester. The area is not visible from the road and requires passing under a graffiti lined subway giving an interesting contrast between the urban and the natural. Approaching the area your hit by the fragrant scent of the flowers before a carpet of blue stretches out beneath the trees, dappled sunlight shines through the leaves illuminating patches of the blue flowers giving the area a magical glow and the look of a living painting. on my visit a small spec of red caught my eye, a small ladybird (ladybug) was making his way across the stem of one of the flowers I quickly switched lenses and he happily posed for me with his black and red spotted shell contrasting perfectly with the blue of the bluebell.