Spring fever

Well, I have now reached the ripe age of fifty four years of existance on this beautiful planet. I think I amm now what you might call past the point of no-return on the uphill struggle of life - now definately middle-aged numerically speaking.

However, my state of mind is a little younger - in my head I only feel about thirty-five/thirty-six............................but my body says different!!!

Anyway I had a quiet celebration with a few of my friends, and got cards from friends and family - not a lot- but enough, and lots of 'Happy Birthday' messages on y facebook page!!

The weather has been so wonderful this past week here, that I have spent probably about 95% of my waking hours outdoors in my garden, - removing weeds before they take over my flower borders, mulching around the roses, and clearing the veggie plot and sowing seeds in the greenhouse. Hopefully, I shall be able to grow some nice fresh food again this year - peas, beans, cauliflowers, khol rabbi, spinach, rhubarb, tomatoes, etc, etc.

Hamish the dog has thought is wonderful as he gets to stay outdoors all day,

and if he drops his ball on the ground where I am weeding, then it is thrown away for him to chase or hunt -what joy!!

I have also been attending my leaded glass art classes, at the Glasworks Studio, in Glasgow, with Yvonne Smith and Joe Boyle, fantastic glass artists. I have started work on a mirror with a fuschia theme.

My finished Poppy panel - made in October - December 2009

Building Drawing

Glass for cutting

Some of the cut glass.

Spring poetry from my past......

I've just been re-instating my office layout, after waiting for over nine months for a whole in the ceiling [over my desk] to be repaired by the neighbour whose workmen put a foot through the ceiling from the shared loftspace!!! - and I was sitting underneath the area at the time!!!

ANYWAY - as I am moving all my 'stuff' back in I am going through it -'to clear the clutter' and make sure that everything goes in the most logical place [ ie not have everything higglety-pigglety around the space!!].

I found a couple of sheets of poems I had composed away back..............................

Misty tranquility and solitude

ripples over rocks ground down over time

green lagoons of deep seawater

Waterfall of sparkling white

Hidden treasures of delight!

8th March 2007

and

Raucous Rooks in the treetops high

calling and cawing and cursing the sky,

and the cold wind which gusts and rocks

the new nests they are trying to construct.

Patches of white

amongst the grass and tree trunks

dotted around the woodland floor

in groups and clumps.

The lowly little Snowdrop,

harbinger of Spring,

with the Rook chorus

the new growth begins.

8th March 2007

Reading these poems took me straight back to the place where I composed them as well as remembering the place, the weather was calm, with sunny spells, but very cold - much like today has been!!