Spring cleaning?
Saturday 5th March, 2016
It is Thursday already and I have only taken my camera out twice so far this week. Yesterday morning, to photograph the first snow of the winter in our garden . . .
. . . and yesterday afternoon to get a close-up photo of the first daff in the back garden.
Tim’s back is still worrying him. Since Sunday we have only managed two short walks - about half a mile up the glen to the end of the tarred road and then back home. Also the garden is still cold and wet - so there is very little to write about this week.
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Now it is Saturday and there is nothing new to report. I walked round the back garden with my camera this afternoon but couldn’t find inspiration.. I quite liked a patch of moss flourishing under the young birch - near the stream which runs down the side of the garden in a ditch at the bottom of the old ivy and honeysuckle covered stone wall.
The birch bark was attractive too - but I couldn’t take a close-up shot of the bark and get the moss in focus.
There was nothing new in the garden, apart from a couple of well-nibbled primroses. I suspect woodlice were to blame. The only other recent flowers were two early dandelions and some lesser celandines. They are both weeds but I prefer lesser celandines to dandelions which have annoyingly deep and tenacious roots. Lesser celandines also have the advantage of being early spring flowers and then dying back.
The last few days of scrounging around desperately for something to photograph have made up my mind. This is a good time to have a brief rest from the cold wet outdoors and blogging I need a new indoor experience. Perhaps spring cleaning would be advisable. Like most resolutions it may not last long but if you could see the years of accumulated clutter you would understand why I finish off today’s post with a variation on Captain Oates famous words . . . I am just staying inside and may be some time.
