There was good hay making weather in Abingdon today.

On Wednesday Tony Tyler from the Old Farm Shop at Rowstock brought a tractor to mow the grassland area at Barton Fields. On Thursday the Barton Fields Green Team raked the hay.

Then today Abingdon Green Gym and the Green Team completed raking and stacking the hay.

The toad in the picture was more easy to see with the hay cut, but well camouflaged. Grass snakes are attracted to piles of hay as they provide a warm ambient temperatures during the winter months.

The Spring Equinox can be any date between 19th and 21st March. This year Spring began on the 20th March.

The daffodils in front of the Abingdon-on-Thames Fire Station have been flowering for most of March. They are called the Field of Hope and were planted in 2010. The first bulbs were planted for a former Abingdon Fireman who died of cancer. The others were planted by people remembering others.

The daffodils on the far bank of the River Thames from Abingdon are at their best at the moment. I don’t know why they were planted but they keep their crescent shape every year. They are quite early this year.

At the recycling centre in Drayton a pink guitar, a painted wooden duck, and a cookie jar have been put aside. Somebody thought they were worth saving.

The big yellow claw will crush the other rubbish.

Some of our old things get sold on Gumtree or Ebay, donated to charity shops., or left out on the street for FREE.

Out with the old and in with the new means MOVE FORWARD.

New lamps for old means the old was worth more than the new.

There was bright sunshine this May Day morning when I left the house.

It would have been better if I had got up earlier and gone into Oxford for the May Morning gathering. I could have got a picture of the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers for the blog. Instead I took a couple of pictures by the River Thames.

There was a film of frost on the car windscreen. Once scraped off, I drove off.

Here are the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers in a video from 2014, dancing the Princess Royal in Abingdon.