A Chilterns Year NEW YEAR Chilly contrasts and mixed emotions greet the new year JANUARY New year gleams with a frosty sparkle JANUARY 6 Epiphany: a day of divine revelations FEBRUARY Nature finds a way to put a spring in our step CANDLEMAS Feast of light in the darkness MARCH Finally, the countryside explodes into colour APRIL BLUEBELLS Dancers in the woods delight the senses APRIL Hedgerows are rustling with new life MAY Stolen snapshots of a wet, warm landscape JUNE Nature rolls out the red carpet for summer JULY Intoxicating taste of midsummer magic AUGUST Harvest highlights captured in close-up SEPTEMBER Has the sun really set on summer? OCTOBER Autumn hues light up the countryside OCTOBER FUNGI Fabulous fungi lurk amid the fallen leaves NOVEMBER Magical world amid the mist and murk NOVEMBER 2024 Day by day, November in the Chilterns DECEMBER Colours to brighten the dullest of days DECEMBER 2024 Day by day, December in the Chilterns SPRING 2022 Season of renewal overshadowed by war JANUARY 2021 Glimmers of hope lighten the gloom AUGUST 2020 A last chance to reset the clock? JULY 2020 All creatures great and small JUNE 2020 Ferns and foxgloves set the tone MAY 2020 Relearning a lost language MARCH 2020 Life, but not as we know it