England has been in the throes of a mini-heat wave with sunshine and temps hovering around the 20° C mark (around 70°). If you lived here, you would know how freakishly weird this is for February! (Thank YOU, global warming!) Needless to say, the entire nation has stripped […]
How grateful I am that my world is not seen in monochrome, that food is more than oatmeal or algae, that the air is alive with birdsong and insects, and the scent of honeysuckle fills this night. Thoroughly humbled, I am reminded that I am not worthy of such […]
Other peoples’ gardens hold for me the greatest joys: All of the glory and none of the work. Mother Hen © motherhendiaries 2015, all rights reserved
“The English landscape at its finest … possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inevitably fail to possess. It is, I believe, a quality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the […]
“What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?” – Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle Every now and again, I simply have to stop the car and preserve what I can of a scene. […]
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