I have family in England, so on occasion I escape to what looks like a magical land to this Californian. This minute as I write, I’m sitting at a table in their garden, gazing past stone fences and heaps of lilacs and honeysuckle and beyond to a field. I came at the perfect time of year when spring is making all surfaces outside a thing of beauty.
and birdsong!
Beautiful, serene view on my walk. I learned I shouldn’t be leaning on pasture gates….
Life here is not without trouble, of course.
There’s rain and snow and crappy jobs and people not getting along. I’m sure to those who live in the villages of England all this beauty I’m enjoying looks familiar and not so magical. They probably don’t notice the mounds of green I see spilling over walls and houses, they don’t see stone and brick houses and pasture gates as anything besides the usual. For me, it’s new every visit. The flowers and bushes and fields and even the cows speak into my soul.
So please forgive me for greedily soaking up everything around me. I hope sharing it with you has given you a moment of beauty and joy too.
Julie, I love your photos and meanderings! I feel the same way when I’m in Scotland, like it’s a magical, story-book land, because I’m on vacation and my troubles are mostly left at home.
Julie, I love your photos and meanderings! I feel the same way when I’m in Scotland, like it’s a magical, story-book land, because I’m on vacation and my troubles are mostly left at home.
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Exactly! When I’m here I feel like it’s my job to soak it all up!
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