Day Off to Enjoy the Sunshine

Couldn't quite bring myself to go into work this morning as the sunshine was looking way too enticing to waste it by spending the day shut up in an office.

Me heading up into the garden to enjoy the moring off work

Spring colour in the front garden

Gnomes protecting some of my indoor plants

Gasteria Flower

Our Gasteria succulents are currently in flower - beautiful little things they are too :o)

Gaze into my Crystal Ball

You don't have to have psychic powers to see magickal scenes in a crystal ball lol:

Chilling in the Garden

At last, a sunny day that is warm enough for me to sit out in the garden. It seems like an age since I was last able to kick back with a good book outside and just chill.

Sat out in the sun with some dandelion & burdock
drink, a good book and my pet tortiose

My tortoise too seemed to enjoy his first outing of the year into the garden too:

It still seems to be too early in the year for too see much colour flower-wise so far, just some dandelions making the most of an unmown lawn and swathes of forget-me-nots which are really dominating the garden at the moment:

Forget-Me-Nots

Squash

I bought this squash last Halloween and it is still looking really good :o) I am hoping it is drying and will be preserved like this as it really is something very special:

A drying squash

Snowdrops and a Blackbird

It has been a harsh and long winter - one of the longest I can remember. Such winters make the flowering of snowdrops all the more delightful to behold - the first delicate stirrings of Mother Nature from her deep hibernation.

Such has been the bleakness of this particular past winter that the appearance of this patch of snowbells, dancing in the chilly breeze and scored by a lone blackbird, called a momentary halt to my wanderings amongst the ancient and mysterious monuments of Avenbury. It was a serene, meditational moment, a snippet of which I recorded on video for this blog :o)