Diary Of A Wild Country Garden

At last a sunny day ! What is that golden globe in the sky? Well, it has seemed a very long time since we have seen it for a full day, or at least for it to give much warmth. However, the sun was out today and the landscape was bathed in a beautiful golden light so I got out into the garden! It is so lovely to see the green shoots of the larger, taller daffodils coming up, no flowers on most of these larger varieties yet, but they will surely come to delight us later in Spring.  The flowers of the tiny Tete a tete daffodils sheltering under the bamboo have decided to flower though and their tiny, courageous, perfect and pretty little sunny yellow flower heads being a smile to my face... The pure white pretty snowdrops are in full flower now and I am very happy about just how many there are this year. Pure white and so simple yet so brave and the first to face the cold, the snow and the winds, yet looking so delicate and gorgeous.  I have gathered snowdrops slowly over ye...

The garden, even in its total desolation, has a beautiful splendor... The morning sun gradually permeates everything, transforming black night to yellow hue to blue and silver, highlighting the glistening frozen dew drops. As it grows more vivid and exact you can detect dazzling, dancing ornaments and figurines in the snow. Birds awake to a wintry wonderland, feathers fluffed out, keeping warm as they can, looking for food. Like us they are waiting for Spring.  A million intricate icy shapes are unbelievably ornate and perfect. The snow takes on a life all its own, like the sea or the earth but secret and silvery. Hiding the landscape beneath, transforming the outlook to a new scene. Snowflakes, each unique and stunning. A short perfect life, turned forever upon fragments of its own self and destined to fruitlessness and silence. Crystals of infinite complexity living for nothing but to gradually dissolve their own perfect unique selves. Crystals growing slowly into each ot...