Joys of Spring

bagitha That feels like the sort of morning that makes me want to throw my arms open wide and take a deep breath .

Annobel and Ariadne - Daffodils are inspiring, aren't they, after the greys of winter days.

bagitha butter

A special day
feathered-cloud streaked across
baby-blue sky.
Misty mountains
rising ghost-like
from a still deep sea.
Oystercatchers content
voiceless
waiting upon the
pebbled shore -
ripples washing at their feet.
White gulls
floating on the crystal air...
the ferry
cutting a swathe of white
as it glides towards
the islands
of the inner Hebrides.

This sounds like a very calm day, super. I see you just resting and looking at this beautiful scene.

Make the most of any lovely calm days, supernana, I shall be up at my cottage in Wester Ross again next week and that's always seems to be a sure guarantee that the good weather will disappear, only to reappear when I leave again!!

PS supernana I forgot to say I loved the poem.

i hope you get some spring weather in Wester Ross, quiltie! It's one of my most favourite parts of the world. For pure beauty, I don't think it can be beaten.

Oh Annobel - and "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may..."

My pond has frozen over!hope the frogspawn is ok.

Thanks, bagitha I hope so too. A friend is coming up with me for a first visit to the area and she wants to visit the Geopark north of Ullapool so maybe she'll break the jinx and see it all at its beautiful best!
But this afternoon I'm going to take take advantage of a sunny day in the south and going for a walk down by the sea at Chichester Harbour.

I remember Chichester Harbour! Lovely area.

The first celandines are out in my garden. (No, I know they shouldn't be there. But I like 'em. And you try getting rid of the so and so's! )

jeni I just looked at your profile to see how close to the North Pole you live (you don't say ) and saw your 'favourite threads' bit. That is so sweet.

N Somerset.

Been lovely blue sky and sunshine here today. Was probably cold early on though. (I don't know anything about early morning weather )

I only noticed at 10am that the lawn was white and the pond frozen. Been a lovely day here as well. Now starting to cloud over.
Work tomorrow!

whatsup - Your celandines are just doing their thing wherever - good to leave them be.

I'm being a complete nerd, but have the following on-stream for those who have nothing better to do. Can't wait for the babies......

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It is about 6/7 hours behind gmt.

(How do you do the blue link so there's not so much link info.?) The techies amongst you will know, I'm sure.

Everything in my garden has suddenly woken up and is growing noticably every day. jingl I love my celandines too, such a lovely sunny colour. A weed is only a weed if its in the wrong place - like a lot of my buttercups.

And this morning our four new hens laid FIVE eggs, so one of them must be feeling exhausted!

My grape hyacinths are coming out. My rosemary is starting to flower. I've seen my first bumble bees. The sun is shining, the sky is blue, my Gardner said he saw a wren yesterday. There is another clump of frogspawn.
Why am I sitting indoors?

Because jeni it's still freezing quite cold out there! You'll all perish at Stonehenge Glad I've got an excuse to stay here!

No it isnt! I've just ventured ( very carefully) down the steps into my garden! It's lovely out. I now have about 9 clumps of frogspawn!

Just checked, its8degrees!

'Tis 11 degrees here. Couldn't we transport Stonehenge to balmy (barmy?) Cheshire?

I've already said ' I've nicked borrowed the tropical dome from the Eden project. ' so please be careful when landing!