Tuesday 26 February 2013

Days Like These

These are perfect days.   Early Spring, full of hope and promise. Crisp frosty mornings remind me that it's good to have emerged from a long dreary winter.  The cold invigorating my sleepy self.  Dawn's warm fingers creep across the landscape, over the mountains and across the fields.
There's new growth and new life. Slowly the buds are awakening, ready to unfurl after the winter months. The first lambs keep close to their mothers in the fields.
All around us nature is looking forward, preparing for a new season, for birth and growth.
There's birdsong in the hedgerows. Starlings, sparrows, finches getting ready to mate, to nest, to start afresh.
Blue skies make me happy. I am glad to be alive, to be out and about, walking, plotting, planning, dreaming.  I forget the heartbreak and hard times that is life for many today.

11 comments:

  1. Sigh! Spring time in Ireland...makes my heart ache to come back again...It just shows you how healing mother nature can be. Lovely thoughts and photos, especially the lamb and those beautiful puffy clouds.

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    1. Yes, we've had such lovely weather lately. There's really nowhere more beautiful than Ireland - when the sun shines.

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  2. Gorgeous scenes... love that little wildflower, so delicately beautiful and the sheep...

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    1. Thank you- there will be lots more sheep and lambs over the coming weeks.

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  3. Oh, it's looking so springy there! Baby sheep are so darling. Love your words.

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    1. Yes, Spring is here! At least for t he time being.

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  4. I've been feeling just the same. It's suddenly wonderful to be alive! Lovely post.

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  5. Isn't it wonderful! Have really enjoyed these sunny days even if I'm stuck in an office for most of them.

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  6. Ah how lovely! Yes! I am like you just beginning to let it seep in......spring is on it's way.......love your energy in this!

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  7. Such beautiful photos - so good to see blue skies and sunshine! It's been warmer and sunny here these last few days and it really is lovely.

    Gillian x

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  8. "Such beautiful photos - so good to see blue skies and sunshine!"

    Couldn't agree more!

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