Running day today, a bitterly cold one and it is only going to get colder.
The birds knew it was new year, you know. Since then, there is so much more song and noise in the dawn. I have local robins and blackbirds singing to greet me as I open the door in the morning. Birds are getting territorial, alarm calls chacking out from the blackbirds, and robins aggro-strutting in the old oak wood at the park.
On the water the mallard drakes are in full breeding colours, bottle green heads glowing in sunlight. Goosander are on the two lakes, the pieballed battleships of the duck world.
On the ground, snowdrops and aconite are out in flower, cowslips too in the library gardens. It is my favourite few months of the year now, as the cemetery changes colour every month as I run through it. I'm loving running again, when my body will stand it.
I'm trying to rediscover the joy in moving through nature.
Si
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As happens every year Si - your aconite shots fill me with joy.
ReplyDeleteYour flowers are so early - nothing anywhere here yet
ReplyDeleteSpring has sprung...... which of course makes the morning run alot more welcoming, save the bitterly cold blast that we had
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