The day started off misty and cloudy (at 7.30 when I left) and was still cool when the sun came out properly at Hay at 10am, but it turned hot and bright, like summer, and like a 70s summer somehow, with the hard dark blue sky, and posters for an uncertain election.
At Much Dewchurch there was a house on a rise by the road with a beautiful white cherry tree blossoming in front of it, the white flowers against the blue sky.