Reflections on Winter Blues to Spring Equinox
Is anyone else feeling the winter blues...? I don't mind January too much really. Maybe it is because we have had days of grey cloudy skies, gales and winds and hard-driving cold rain. In reality, the weather is not as severe as we might get at all and we have had much more severe conditions. In a way, it is a quiet time, welcome after the hectic time of December and a New Year is always a chance to adopt new habits, new hope for the future. However it is still mid-winter, cold, windy, rainy and I still cannot get out in my garden very much. Our heavy clay soil is sticky and difficult to walk on and ruins the grass and soil if walked on much so we keep it to a minimum. I watch from the patio eagerly looking for signs of new life and I know they are there. I generally feel quieter, more sluggish, more in hibernation mode in January. So just reflecting and looking forward. We are moving away now from the winter Solstice which was on December 21st. It is often...