sun living
2012
Oh my! After seven days of turgid grey, look at that sky! Glorious, glorious sun and blue. YuM!
Every other possible activity for the day is shelved … we simply must head out to the garden and soak up that sun. It will renew our spirits for sure.
I fill the line with every skerrick of washing that can be found. If nothing else is achieved today, this alone will make me extraordinarily happy!
In between washing loads, I knit … time for the sleeves … more provisional casting on … such a detailed pattern to follow but everything comes together so precisely as written that I approach each new step with excitement.
Julian works on a very sweet, vintage bike. He is so methodical, with such an eye for detail and a determination to get it just right … I love that :-)
All the animals stretch themselves out so as to soak up every single sunbeam.
The sun works her magic so very well that some of us shed jumpers and others declare that it’s almost too glary!
We eat blood oranges (some more strangely than others!) … one of winter’s lovely features … and declare that we will not move inside until the sun goes down.
Of course it does. Everything that was warm becomes cold and damp to touch. Those autumn leaves which stubbornly hang on until spring’s green buds push them off burn with the orangey-pink sunset. It’s time.
Time to retreat to the warmth of a lamp lit home. Cosy sofas. Bubbling stoves. Slippers and drawn curtains.
Ah but we have been so well fed by today’s sun that we greet the chilly, frosty night stretching out before us with good cheer.
Thank goodness.
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I so enjoy your blog and wondered once, when you were contemplating your future career, if you’d considered writing. You certainly have a talent for it. It does seem strange to read of your grasping the last rays of sun when we here in the eastern US are dodging it and looking for that spot of shade in temps expected to be over 100F today.
Thanks for sharing your life through your blog.
Sue
Hi Lily
A lovely collection of photos on your sun-shiney day! And your new blog header photo is gorgeous!! Enjoy today, I think it’s going to be just as blue.
Lovely day and lovely pics. The shadows are just about to fall across our hills too. I also love your new header. I think I can smell the sunshine in that washing right up here.
Have a great week at Bootville. Hope the weather stays just as good as today for the last week of the hols.
Blessings gail
i’m really enjoying looking through the photos!
with very best wishes
from jacqueline in england