Hawthorn

The hawthorn is in bloom all over Sussex- in lanes, by roads, in gardens, on the hills- and there's just so much of it. Here's a particularly windswept tree above the village of Telscombe in the heart of the South Downs.



The name of the hill is Telscombe Tye. Turn round, climb a few paces to the brow of it, and there's the sea.