Growing Up

Rowan is off for the weekend at an activity centre at Bewerley Park

http://northyorks.outdoored.co.uk/bewerleypark/

so I left her this morning with her suitcase and home-clothes. All the kids were very excited about it. This parent feels a little bereft...
The photo is of a path through the buttercups on Hob Moor, they and the Hawthorne blossom are on the wain now, with the elder flowers taking their weeks in the limelight.