The same five trees as in January. I think the biggest change is actually in the grass!
The flower beds still look raw:
But I’m hoping everything will be less sad in time.
Author: SpinningStreak
Late January Trees
I have chosen five trees (and two flower beds) from the gardens outside this window. The idea is to capture an image of each one, towards the end of each month. So this is January.
August might prove interesting – but who knows by then? Testing times.
No words this time
Says it all…
Dark and gloomy. This was our local pub – on New Year’s Eve! I’ve hardly crept out since. A few quick trips down to the seafront – but not if the sun is out…
We had a very cold snap a few days ago. Feeling rather smug, I went to dig out a superior, extra warm alpaca and merino blanket I made during the first lockdown in the Spring. By the time I had finished knitting it,of course, we were into a heatwave, so it went into store. Nasty surprise when I retrieved it – in dozens of pieces! Absolutely typical – once the knitting was completed I just never got round to stitching it all together – a chore I loathe. So now I am spending my mornings sprawled across the floor, trying to join it all up before the weather changes…
I definitely don’t have the hang of these image blocks yet, but I won’t be defeated. Anyway, it does manage to make the log cabin design look as confusing as it actually is…I’m off to face up to another strip!
Whoa there, December…
The month that nearly got away – just one hour left for a blog post.
If there can be such a thing as a ‘whirl of indecision’, then that characterised December round here. And no doubt all over the country too – travel plans made and scrubbed, food ordered and frozen, turkeys NOT bought till the very last minute, then mysteriously out of stock….overloaded at work, then suddenly ordered home by the phone app. on the very day my daughter and her little people came out of isolation….
But of course I understand why – and I do appreciate how thoughtfully protected I have been at work (teaching in a secondary school) and how lucky we are to have escaped the virus so far.
There were some peaceful moments too – and even a rather productive space in the unique time frame now apparently known as ‘Twixtmas’.
The pictures above were taken on Christmas Eve.
Happy New Year from SpinningStreak.
SpinningStreak 