Earth Day 2016!
Well - I thought I'd missed it this year. My life has so little space in it at the moment for musing and celebrating nature - it's just the way things go sometimes. But it's still all out there, doing...
View ArticleEarth Day 2015!
This Earth Day finds me in a very different place - working full time in a hospital - but still finding time to smell the roses, and appreciate the glory that is the turning year, and the beautiful...
View ArticleLammas has passed...
There's a nip in the air, and a different smell on the breeze…August.My harvest home is ended; and I spy September drawing nigh With the first thought of Autumn in her eye, And the first sigh Of Autumn...
View ArticleGoodbye April!
The greening is almost complete, and the flowering is poised to explode…we have had a period of rain that has accelerated everything, and nature is looking lush and gorgeous - ready for May!A gladness...
View ArticleEarth Day 2014
Earth Day is here again, and so is the blossom, and so are the bees. How many more times will we be able to say this? We expect it, and cannot contemplate a world without it, and yet…Those who...
View ArticleRibbons of light
February has arrived, and there are definite signs of spring everywhere - in the country the catkins are shimmering in the wind and the Wild Arum is springing up green and lush. And in the garden we...
View ArticleRain upon Rain
There is no let-up, and the earth is full and spilling over. If only we could share our water with the dry places of the earth!Every valley drinks,Every dell and hollow:Where the kind rain sinks and...
View ArticleRain-washed skies
The rain fell down in sheets on New Year's Day. All day, without ceasing, as if it was washing away all the rubbish from last year. This morning is clear and sunny, and very pretty - it's the proper...
View ArticleNew Year's Eve
The rain and wind have returned, and our little valley is awash again. I am looking forward to the New Year, wishing for peace, health, and good times for us all -Happy New Year!"Ring out, wild bells,...
View ArticleChristmas
Happy Christmas to us all, and may 2014 bring joy and peace."Peace is not a season... it is a way of life. When the spirit of Peace becomes a part of our lives, everyday will be Christmas and every...
View ArticleDecember
Hard to believe, but here we are. Winters clear light and beautiful bones will soon be here - as well as the dark and drear days! Time to light fires and hunker down.Now tho' joyful summer's fled,Why...
View ArticleThe fall of the leaf
A poem for Millie - we miss you Meenu Peenu!"Know’st thou not at the fall of the leafHow the heart feels a languid griefLaid on it for a covering,And how sleep seems a goodly thingIn Autumn at the fall...
View ArticleSad days
Our beautiful and so much loved cat Millie has to leave us in a few days time. It is hard to bear, but bear it we must.Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the...
View ArticleBeautiful cows
While visiting Kilver Court Garden on my birthday, we found a dusty path that led to a gate overlooking a field. Suddenly a face peeped out from behind a wall on the other side of the field. It was a...
View ArticleJuly swoons on
What an amazing summer. I am lucky to be able to enjoy it, and spend long hours in the garden - mostly under shade!The flowers have been glorious, especially a new one for our garden - Clarkia - with...
View ArticleSummer delight
An unexpected day off left me free in the (relative in this heat wave) cool of the morning to wander down to Dunkerton and back. A thrush sang me on my way, and butterflies flitted elusively just...
View ArticleJuly Challenge
My challenge to post every day this July has yet again resulted in me tapping away in bed last thing, after forgetting once more. At least I have done it! Tomorrow it will be the turn of my other blog...
View ArticleLaburnum!
When I was young there were laburnum trees in everyone's garden, but I don't see many these days - maybe the fact that the seeds are poisonous has put people off. It's a shame, because they are...
View ArticleJuly already!
The summer hurries on, and one by one our hedgerow friends appear and grace us with their beauty. I have to remind myself to stop and smell the roses - before the petals fall for another year.Beauty...
View ArticleMay rain
After a dry spring rain has come in the last week, and all the plants have drunk and grown - almost like time-lapse photography. This is the fastest time of year I think, and we are speeding on to...
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