Simply..recent delights....

10/2/2021

..include snow - just enough to transform everything, sunshine - just enough to make the snow sparkle, snowdriops - beginning to open and make it worth a walk round the village, and saxifrage - waiting for me at the supermarket. They may not be up to the below freezing temperatures, having been coddled in vans and supermarket, so are in the greenhouse under fleece for now, but will soon be on the porch.

Oh, and another S - the stars have been fabulous these freezing nights . A few moments standing under a starry sky give me a whole better perspeective on things....

6 Comments

Gail

12/2/2021 03:44:30 am

When I arose at Six, husband and dog were stilling Sleeping and softly Snoring. I put on my coat and, with a Shovel, cleared front steps of ice and Snow. Then I sprinkled Salt on the steps
That’s my limit of “s” for the day. (gentle smiles)

Freda

12/2/2021 02:54:34 pm

Simply Smiling here too..

Liz

12/2/2021 03:48:16 am

Beautiful post. It reminds me of Liz Lochead’s poem In the Mid Mid-Winter - ‘ the light always comes back, the light always comes back...’

Freda

12/2/2021 02:55:47 pm

Thank you for that Liz. I didn’t know that poem.

Liz

13/2/2021 02:26:04 am

In the Mid Midwinter Liz Lochhead
("'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's" – from John Donne's A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day)#

At midday on the year's midnight
into my mind came
I saw the new moon late yestreen
wi the auld moon in her airms though, no,
there is no moon of course,
there's nothing very much of anything to speak of
in the sky except a gey dreich greyness
rain-laden over Glasgow and today
there is the very least of even this for us to get
but
the light comes back
the light always comes back
and this begins tomorrow with however many minutes
more of sun and serotonin.
Meanwhile
there will be the winter moon for us to love the longest,
fat in the frosty sky among the sharpest stars,
and lines of old songs we can't remember
why we know
or when first we heard them
will aye come back
once in a blue moon to us
unbidden,
bless us with their long-travelled light.

Freda

13/2/2021 05:54:43 am

Thank you Liz. There are so many phrases in this that I love.

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