The weather forecast did predict a flurry of snow for Easter Monday, and sure enough this morning we woke to a sunny but snowy spring garden… Brrr…! 🙂
Tag: seasons
The Healing Power of Nature
Honestly, this week I’d have felt lost without having my precious garden to escape to. It’s helped give me a proper focal sense of purpose during my first full week of unemployment due to redundancy, an actual, practical physical space to spend time in welcome activity as well as providing me with an abstract emotional passive space to process how I feel about not having a job any more.
This week I’ve had ample sunshine and fresh air and feel-good exercise and a quiet, subtle reminder that whatever else this pandemic has put a stop to, nature has endured throughout. Over this past year of repressive Covid restrictions and devastations the seasons have turned as ever, from spring to summer to autumn to winter and now back to spring again. The world still turns on its axis, familiar and free, and life goes on regardless…
So for me, I’d have to say that the healing power of nature has won the week, helping to keep me smiling through an otherwise difficult few days 🙂
Spring Flowers in the Garden
A selection of Spring flowers from my garden for today’s Flower of the Day 🙂
Spring Flowers
Spring flowers in the garden for today’s Flower of the Day 🙂
My Snowmelt Winter Garden
We had another light snowfall yesterday, and although last night’s frost means today everything is still crunchy underfoot it already seems to be melting a little in the low winter mid-day sun. So my camera and I went out to the back garden to see what we could see, taking a series of photographs of my snowmelt winter garden 🙂
My November Garden
As well as beuatiful autumnal colours my November garden also brings the promise of new life for next year 🙂
Red and Green
Red and green always seems such a Christmassy combination, even at the beginning of September! And for the past couple of days as well as a trio of bluetits a little robin with its fluffy orange-red breast has been feeding at our bird feeder, so nature seems keen to remind me that winter will be coming soon. Thanks nature, I know the fast-cooling weather has been a little uncertain lately but personally I haven’t actually quite finished with summer yet, and surely autumn still needs to have her beautiful blaze of glory before chilly winter blows over us with her icy breath and frozen fingers… 🙂
The Joys of Spring
While spring-time fills my heart with joy
Plant pollen makes my red eyes itch
And constant sneezing does annoy
Hay-fever is a total bitch
Good anti-histamines employ
Reduce my allergies enough
To let me breathe, however rough
While scented flowers fill the air
I fill my lungs without a care
And wheeze until it makes me cough…
Garden Daffs
Daffodils growing in my garden for today’s Flower of the Day 🙂
Spring Has Definitely Sprung
Here in the UK our clocks change tonight, formally heralding the beginning of British Summer Time but in reality simply letting us all know that it’s time that Spring has well and truly sprung! 🙂
