Vivacious Nasturtium; Blue, Blue Clematis; And a Cat, a Squirrel and a PupperJack in the Park
A Tin Cat or a Monitor? How to Choose?
Nasturtiums (above) enliven many gardens now. One year I will manage to plant mine in time for them to join in!
Unfortunately, that didn’t happen this year. Poor little stunted things …
Fabulous late clematis (left above); yellow and pink lantana (right above) sheltering in the lee of its big neighbour, white oleander.
A couple of wall-offerings as we took our regular morning amble were a tea tin with a cat on it and a computer monitor. I knew which I preferred, but I managed to leave them both behind. I have more than enough of tins and of monitors — and general assorted computer bits — already.
PupperJack wanted the overripe courgette that someone else had left on their wall, but I didn’t want that either. Or the defunct shredder on yet another wall. Or even the rack of old spice jars …
There are lots of berries around at the moment — rowan above left, and what looked like pale pink rowan (above middle), but I don’t know if they are.
Above right are teeny-tiny apples — they are about as big as the berries.
A little drama was playing out over the wall in the small square behind our house — the cat was watching the squirrel and the squirrel was being nonchalant about it all and casually eyeing PupperJack and me. He didn’t care.
He was such a laid-back squirrel!
PupperJack, this side of the wall, saw neither the cat nor the squirrel. Thank heaven — or the screams of frustrated anguish would have been brain-batteringly awful.
Oh, no! PupperJack was looking over my shoulder when I wrote that!
His accusing eyes are boring through me now and the telepathy is thunderous: “Squirrel!!! There was a squirrel??? AND a cat???”
It’s suddenly gone very cold here. Although not really cold enough to go skating just yet …
‘Just skating along’.
Just skating along humming a song; communing with the ice.
Just gliding by, I fly between earth and sky in my frozen paradise.
All alone but never lonely. For company - my own thoughts suffice.
This day is mine, all mine. This day is very, very fine.
The ice makes it twice as nice!
Dennett started the Photo-a-Day Challenge to help combat the pandemic blues. Since then many others kindly share their week with us:
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