Earliest morning frost, and happy happy days!

 

You have all been very kind and I thank you so much for your support.

Some happy days are here again as early morning frost has left the meadows around here pure sparkly diamond strewn! Gone are the prevailing grey south westerly weather systems which tend to engulf Ireland for weeks on end. For two days we haven't had a cloud in the sky and as I look out from my office window I am delighted to witness "the actual" sun and right now "the actual" moon as well.

It won't last.....but....

How's the weather and how is it affecting your mood in your part of the world?

To whom are we beautiful when we go?

"I wish I knew the beauty of leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful when we go?" David Ingnato

Someone very close to me is on their way. It has been a slow process. I am at the point where it is really very challenging to try to see any beauty in it. I suppose that increasing vulnerability is hard to accept from one so big and so strong. And yet, the unexpected softness, the holding onto the small pleasures, the very rare moments of laughter, these are precious still, although rare enough these days.

Wanting to run away from this parting I find that the deepening autumn is my soulmate on the road . Glimpses of the world around me going to sleep, absolutely lacking in any sense of panic, can be re-assuring. Ever so slowly today I am letting winter happen! The almost bare branches are going to be strewn with bird feeders by the end of this day, and I look forward to filling the larder of the robin family over the next few weeks.......