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: spring
Daffodils Blowing in the Breeze
Trying to capture garden daffodils blowing around in the spring breeze on a sunny Sunday morning isn’t the easiest of tasks – they just wouldn’t stay still in shot! 🙂
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 🙂
The Last of the Crocus
The last of my spring crocus in the garden – they’re starting to die off now, so I captured them one last time before they go 🙂
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 🙂
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…
Home Grown Hyacinths: Update
The hyacinth bulbs I planted at the beginning of the year, kept in the cold and dark of the garden shed for 10 weeks, then sat on the conservatory window sill watching the green shoots coming through are finally flowering – and what a beautiful deep purple colour they are so far! 🙂
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! 🙂
