今日は、家で軽くランチをした後、「Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens」に今が季節のさつき、つつじ、石楠花を見に行ってきました。２年前に行った時は特にロック・ガーデンのつつじが見事だったのですが、今年は少し遅かったみたいです。その代わり、石楠花がきれいに咲いていました。場所によっても種類によっても咲く時期が少しずつ違うので、４、5、６月に行けばそれなりに楽しめると思います。お天気予報を見ていて明日行こうと思っていたのですが、ランチをしていたらお天気がとても良かったので、急遽、ランチの後行くことにしました。今日も明日も曇り時々晴れ、という予報で大きな雲が時々現れては太陽が顔をだすというお天気なのでタイミングが難しいところでしたが、幸い、ちょうどわたしたちが歩いていた時はとても良いお天気でした。気温が低めなので風もあって歩き始めは寒かったのですが、たくさんの坂道を歩いている間に温まりました。歩き終わってお茶とケーキをいただく頃には結構大きな雲に覆われて来ていたので、一番お天気が良い時間帯に歩けたようで良かったです。
After we had a quick lunch at home, we headed to “Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens” to see azeleas and rhododendrons. When we visited there 2 years ago, the azeleas in the rock garden was just amazing, but I think we were a little later to go this year. However, there were a lot of rhododendrons in bloom. Depending on the positions and kinds of rhodorendrons/azaleas – the timings for blooming vary I think – the gardens look lovely with them for quite a while (from April to June). We were planning to go there tomorrow because the weather forecast was better then, but it looked very sunny when we were having lunch so we changed our plan and went today. As the forecast for both today and tomorrow were cloudy with sunny intervals it was impossible to know when we would actually get the sun, but we were lucky as it was quite sunny while we were walking in the gardens. The temperature wasn’t very high and it was a bit windy so it felt chilly to start with but as we walked the slopes up and down we warmed up. By the time we had tea and cake we could see a huge cloud above us so we really had the best of the weather.
たくさん写真がありすぎるので、インスタグラムのリンクを貼っておきます。インスタグラムだと写真サイズの変更をしなくて良いので楽なのです。
As I have too many photos I want to upload, I will put links to my Instagram posts again, this way I don’t have to individually edit and change the size of the photos, so it’s a lot easier.