The sun shone today, what a welcome sight, what a tonic. It’s a shame we can’t bottle its essence, make sunshine tablets or simply stuff it a box and save it for the rainy days.
There was sunshine beaming in on the jug of tulips on my desk this afternoon
In the garden the birds were basking in the stuff.
A nuthatch at the bird feeder, not the sharpest shot in the bag, but I like the beak and the bullet shaped sunflower seed.
Like this:
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Watching the rhythm of rural life, from the top of a hill in northern England.
Having spent most of my life avoiding writing, I now need to do it!
I am no domestic goddess, but if I were expecting visitors to my home, I would whisk round with the duster and plump up the cushions and generally make the place look presentable. I hope that by putting my words where others may see them it will encourage me to ‘tidy up and push the Hoover around’ my writing.
On the other hand I may just be adding to the compost heap. Only time will tell!
Pull up a chair, sit yourself down, I’ll put the kettle on.
January 13, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Lovely. Thank you for that nice blast of color. Very gray scale here in Wisconsin.
January 13, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Getting sharp pictures of fast-moving animals and birds (says one who has a whole collection of blurred squirrel pictures!) is as much a matter of luck as of skill. Let’s just say that the “soft focus” of your image suggests movement and vitality.
January 13, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Lovely photos, and that’s another bird I’ve never seen! xx
January 13, 2012 at 7:54 pm
“A weekend to grab your winter woollies!” words just spoken on the weather forecast as I sit here in the lounge! Yes it looked good here but boy is it cold! Brrrrrrrrrrr! North Yorkshire could see -7!!!!
January 13, 2012 at 10:24 pm
Who knew that a nuthatch and a pot of tulips could produce euphoria? Really, I think modern medicine should take note.
January 14, 2012 at 2:29 pm
I’m glad you got your sunshine at last.
January 17, 2012 at 12:22 am
What a day: Sunshine tulips – and a bird that is armed to the teeth
(is that term also used in English about a fully armed person?!)
January 18, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Yes, ‘armed to the teeth’ works for us!!