We walked up to the top of town to Appreciate the Snowdrops on Friday. It was after lunch, a cold, sunny afternoon when it felt just right to be out doing such a simple thing. I've been visiting this patch of ground every February for a decade and it never fails to make my heart expand with happiness, which is especially welcome in the middle of an often weary, grey month.
It's funny doing these sorts of things with J, he never quite knows what to do with himself when I set off on a giddy moment out in public. He kind of loiters nearby as if he doesn't really want to be drawn into my particular kind of crazy, but at the same time he is quietly accepting and supportive. I took loads of photos, just as I do every single year when I am faced with this glorious carpet of living floral beauty. I can never seem to get enough of the way flowers makes me feel, I want to drink in the emotion of it, absorb the visual pleasure right into my very soul.
It's not just flowers though, it's the whole seasonal thing that continues to inspire me year after year after year. Which reminds me, now that I've ticked Snowdrop Patch Appreciation off my list, I really must head up to the allotment and see how it's all looking. It's nearly time for that particular seasonal year to begin again - my To-do list has >>Contact Poo Lady<< on it, which means calling up the lady who will come with a trailer load of well rotten horse manure. I've got big Floral Plans for my allotment patch this year, I am beyond excited thinking about all that I want to do.
I hope you've got some beautiful things on your to-do list this week, in amongst the chores and errands, there is definitely room for beauty and floral appreciation.
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Sigh! I'd LOVE to see such a riot of floral loveliness!! Alas, we have cold-cold-snow-snow with no particular end in sight! I so look forward to your happy blog posts, as they make it all bearable!! :-)
Posted by: Annie Chermak | February 19, 2019 at 07:18 PM
Wonderful reading your words x
Posted by: Meryl | February 19, 2019 at 06:30 PM
Your post made me laugh when I met my man had three kids was doing an art degreeas a mature student 40+ and lots of crazy things going on floating sculpture, boxes of oranges in odd places, bloody sacks of plaster everywhere but he supported me through it all.They think we nuts but love us anyway, we are so lucky eh. Now we redecorating and guess what the first room is his a railway room hes always wanted a model railway and I wholeheartedly support him in his dream xx
Posted by: jacqui | February 19, 2019 at 06:20 PM
The weather on Friday was so lovely. Me and a grand-daughter walked home from school via snowdrops and crocuses in the churchyard and along by the river
Posted by: Annie Carlisle | February 19, 2019 at 06:06 PM
My favourite flowers, this is them looking at their best!
Posted by: Ann Chapman | February 19, 2019 at 05:19 PM
I love snowdrops! They always make me feel of things to come in the flower line! I took my 4year old grandson for a walk round the block and we stopped and looked at all the snowdrops! He called them snowdrips! Think I shall have to rename them now!
Posted by: Sally Spragg | February 19, 2019 at 05:11 PM