Thursday, June 01, 2023

Print, woodruff and on my feet.

1. I am invited to marvel at and even touch a 500-year-old print that has just arrived through the post.

2. A carpet of woodruff in a shaded spot -- rosettes of golden leaves and white flowers.

3. The sun heat saved in the balcony's surface soaks through my socks.
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Kite, journey and not quite the end of the day.

1. Red kite with pie-slice tail and wing fingers splayed wheels over aluminium roofs on an industrial estate. 2. Chatting idly across the tr...

  • Bee, green beans and movie night.
    1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
  • Midsummer, feeding and cakes.
    1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
  • As needed, forgotten cake and syrup.
    1. I promised myself I wouldn't moan and grumble about it -- but I do. And as if by magic, a very kind friend produces the required blaz...