At last I have managed to
'get around' to writing another post!
I hope, also, that I will start to be able to visit you...
It feels like a long time....
At last I have managed to
get some photos of one of the....
Greater Spotted Woodpeckers
that visit our feeders several times a day
They are so shy
that as soon as you move to get a camera
they are off!!
I have had yet another chest infection
These continual infections are dragging me down
so I haven't felt like visiting or writing!
Sorry!!
Last week I took the road to the hills
(covered here in snow clouds!)...
to visit my favourite retreat
I just love the shapes of the trees
when the leaves have fallen
so, I'm afraid...
I have just had to try and show you a few
that I saw on my way
Another favourite is this little stream
I always have to stop my car
and open the car window to watch and hear
it's sound as it rushes over the rocks.
Somehow it quiets my soul
and any turmoil inside is just quietened
as I sit there in the fresh air
of the hills....
Do you have a place like this
that you go to....
just for a few minutes......that's all it takes..
to unwind and relax?
I just love to look at trees in winter
they have shed their leaves and another busy season
is over
now it's time to rest!
It makes me think!
Although we just see the bare branches
inside the sap is starting to rise
ready for a new spring
Somehow
it seems like a fresh start
old things have passed away....like
the old dead leaves
and inside is a stirring...no one can see
yet it's going on...!!
The first anyone will know is when the buds start
poking out their heads.
It gives me hope
that, for each of us, there is a time of
refreshing and renewing
that might mean just a few moments out
but, after, there is a stirring inside
and a readiness
to start again on whatever life has for us!
On the way home I came through
the snowdrop woods
Each one looks so perfect
like individual drops of snow.......
A perfect end
to... a perfect 'time out'!!
