I'm not enjoying a very positive time at the moment. There are times when it is easy to get low and stay there. Recent/current health worries are making me feel unusually stressed, so my husband suggested a walk around the antiques emporiums in town this morning to cheer me up. I should have known THAT would be fatal! I was casting a jaundiced eye (after last weekend!) over various pieces of china and collectables, when I looked up and saw this beautiful watercolour. It reminded me both of my New Forest childhood and of course, the moors of Dartmoor. We asked the price, which wasn't at all expensive, and left the shop to walk back to the car. My OH knew I really wanted it, but I was of the philosphy that money wasn't exactly plentiful at the moment and if it was meant for me, when I DID have the money, it would still be there waiting. Anyway, the long and the short of it was that we turned round and we got a suitable amount off the asking price and it came home with us and is now hanging on the bedroom wall. Another week of beans on toast and vegetable curry then!
As you can see, we had a wee bit of rain yesterday and overnight. This is the extension to the "herb garden", which has various perennials in it, and will have Sweet Peas around the edge when I have set to and excavated a suitable trench.
Ramsons (Wild Garlic) growing just beside our front gate in the "wild" area.
I had intended to walk down along the river, camera in hand, to take some photos of the beautifully ethereal atmosphere of the young leaves on the beech trees. However . . . someone (Miffy, the boys' mother) saw me going and decided she was going to come too, but she was complaining bitterly all the way until I turned round and retraced my steps. Here she is, yowling at me and telling me to Hurry Up! She is blind in one eye, but this doesn't seem to stop her hunting.
So I took a couple of photos on our way back from town. Doesn't it look beautiful? Quite a depth of flood-water building up too . . .
