Monday, February 07, 2022

Winter flowers, purple buds and flannel sheets.

1. Under the hedge: snowdrops. Along the verge: winter heliotrope. Beneath the magnolia's furred buds: bright yellow aconite.

2. These bare saplings growing at the bottom of the field have fat purple buds.

3. To come home and find Nick has changed the bed, putting on warm flannel sheets.

Hoarders, flowers and technology.

1. In a low voice he reels off the names of the muscles where I have been hoarding all this tension. 2. He comes home with posies of flowers...