I wrote this on Monday afternoon. Just my observations from sitting and listening and watching. Just going with the flow, so a little disjointed, but just things as I saw, heard and thought.
Monday 20th April 2020.
Today has been a gorgeous day. A bit breezy but warm with a beautiful blue
sky. I often sit in the garden seat in
the front of the garden that overlooks the road below and out to sea. I sit and read with a cup of tea during
breaks from other activities such as gardening or sewing. More sewing than gardening has been done
these last few days I guess. I’m
currently waiting on some bags of potting mix and compost, bamboo poles and
plants. Oh and elbow length gardening
gloves to do battle with the stinging nettles.
All I can hear is birds, bees and the wind and sea. It really is quite perfect. There are a lot of bees at work stopping
briefly on plants before moving on to another. I saw my first goldfinch in this garden
today. It flew down to the pond and
looked like it wanted a drink but couldn’t quite work out how to get the water as
the level has dropped. I must see if I can find something to make a birdbath
with. The blackbirds are more sued to
the pond and hop on the frog ramp to access the water for a drink or a bath and
I watched Mrs Blackbird do just such a thing today.
It is late afternoon so will soon be time to start cooking my
dinner. The plants have been watered,
rather a few trips up and down the garden to do so! The guinea pigs have been fed too.
Pigeons are cooing, the odd crow cawing and general twittering
of robins and other birds. I can also
hear the water fountain trickling in the pond.
Some days it is more obvious than others, but the sea is louder today because
of the wind. I can see white caps on the
blue.
So many colours surround me, blues, pinks, and rich reds,
orange, yellow and white flowers in the garden on various plants, hedging and
clematis. Different shades of green of the grass, shrubbery, leaves, stems etc…
The sky is a beautiful blue interspersed with soft white clouds. Ivy intertwines itself on the trellis work
of my garden seat. I sit and think how
lucky I am to be living here. It turns
out it really was worth the long wait.
I the tree opposite my seat in another garden I can see
several nests, although haven’t ever seen anything fly into or near them as
yet. Perhaps they are long abandoned.
There are many tadpoles in the pond slowly growing. Fish are seen too, but they tend to stay out
of sight a lot.
In the top corner of the seat frame there is a tiny perfectly
formed spider’s web. The sun is
reflecting off it making it look almost like delicate silver.
A wood pigeon has twice flown to the edge of the pond and
twice flown off straight away as it has realised I am sitting no so far
away. It is not quite brave enough to
ignore me.
I can hear the wind rustle through the leaves I the trees and
see them swaying. Nothing is really
still today. Plants, grasses and flowers
are bobbing this way and that. Even the
fountain sprays of water change direction frequently with the breeze.
A very young robin has just hopped on the branches of the
tree behind where I sit. I can see it
through the trellis as I am sitting sideways on the seat so I can see in
different directions. Usually I see an
adult robin, this is the first time I have seen a youngster. It looks very well fed and still has its
speckled colouring. How wonderful to see
this fledgling venturing out into the world.
On the pine tree across to the right a crow sits on the
uppermost branch, now walking along it a bit like a tight rope walker. Now stopped, looking this way and that for a
few minutes before he takes off in flight.
A seagull is making use of the thermals in the air as it flies across
the vista in front of me.
Shadows are lengthening as the sun is starting to get lower
in the sky; the wind seems to be picking up again. It’s time to go in and start preparing dinner
as reluctant as I am to leave this spot.
Go with the flow, catch the elusive thoughts and words before they fly away
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