Yesterday was a glorious day - sunny, hardly a cloud in the sky, and a nice temperature for doing things. Occasionally there was a cool wind, but not too often. The change came through overnight with wind, then cloud bringing finally some much needed rain. Our lawn should not have yellow patches through dryness at this time of year - yellow patches where we left things on the lawn and didn't pick them up for sure, but not due to poor growth.
On Sunday evening, I stopped on the way back from closing up the chicken run to admire the song of this little fellow, serenading the beautiful sunset. I think he was a nightingale, from the size of the bird, the volume and twiddles of the song and the time of the evening, but I could be wrong. Whatever, it was very pleasant.
We have hardly left the house at all today, and when we did, it was the signal for rain to start - every time!! Paranoid? O yes! The first time was this morning when I got the paper out of the post box, and stopped to admire the flowers on the red iris. This year the flowers look more iris like as it has been so dry that the snails that usually munch them have been hiding - that'll stop this evening. I can almost here them starting to eat their way through the flowers!
We needed to stop off at the One Acre Wood to get a couple of logs from a stash we have there (we shouldn't still need log fires in May for goodness' sake!). The rain got quite intense then, but as the trees are mostly leafed up now, we were fairly sheltered. I took the opportunity to look up an oak tree we don't often talk to, but who is really rather magnificent!
And now I am going to find a glass of wine and put supper in the oven.
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