Week 15
I go back in time (a few weeks)
Hello!
Welcome to week 15.
This is our weekly post in which we track the seasons - what have we noticed this week that felt particularly ‘this week’ in the year: I tell you mine and then you tell me yours, in the comments, and at the end of the month I make a big, messy, beautiful poem out of it.
Here’s mine:
Back in time (a few weeks)
An odd one for me this week because I went to Edinburgh for a long weekend for a big family gathering. The venue was the botanic gardens, where I was lucky enough to study a million years ago, and I had so been looking forward to walking around the gardens again. HOWEVER there was a big gale, and the gardens were shut, and we could only gaze at them from the balcony of our function room, like this, above. What was remarkable was how wintery it was though, all bare trees and daffodils, and it made me realise that for all my carping about how un-spring-like it has been recently, well…it actually has been. The drive home was a revelation, moving over the course of several hours from early March to what looked in some places like early May, with first hints of bluebells on the verges and green luscious growth on the trees. How astonishing that it can be so different over such a short distance (relative…it was a long old drive). And what a lesson in ‘yes the seasons really are turning’. You’d think I’d know that by now…
A tiny bit of housekeeping. I forgot to do ‘usual spot’ on Sunday (again)! So we will be doing it this Sunday - please line up your pics. To explain for the uninitiated: every Sunday we all have a show-and-tell of the seasonal pics on our phone from the week just passed. We do this in ‘chat’ which you can only access if you have the app - there are three icons along the bottom of the screen and you click on the right hand one and there you will find chats started by all of the people you follow on here. Many of us have picked a ‘usual spot’ and we take a picture of it on or around the first Sunday of the month and post it there, as a way of marking the passing of the year. It’s not too late to start now. Look forward to seeing all of your springtime spots then.
Anyway that’s all from me - let’s hear from you. What have you done/seen/eaten/baked this week that felt particularly ‘this week’? Leave your answers below.
Jhhh
Daffodils bobbing in the breeze, the first blush of buds on tree branches, rabbits once again in the yards, and the return of the bears, overturning our garbage bins!
What a lovely city to return to Lia ( boo to not being able to access the Botanical gardens though) Ah yes the north/ south drive and differences …we did the whole length of the country from north Northumberland to the Sussex Downs last Sunday and the differences were astounding! We were greeted here by our glorious cherry tree being totally OVER blossoming, bluebells everywhere, and the greening of trees which had barely started In Northumberland, well advanced here….. That long drive back was the start of a very long and difficult week for me - 3 early starts to go to the hospital for final pre- treatment tests which should have culminated in my chemotherapy starting yesterday. But after several attempts to get the cannula needle in to my not very co- operative veins, by my super experienced cancer specialist nurse, we abandoned it and decided to wait until my embedded port is fitted on Monday and start treatment on Tuesday! A big anti- climax I can tell you …. But I totally trust their judgement and understand the drip infusion must be delivered safely. So back to just staying calm and waiting - a walk in the bluebell woods nearby was the beautiful ending to that rather frustrating day! Acres and acres of misty blue below the green canopy, with white petals of wild cherry trees above drifting down like snow. Perfect.