Notes from the Slow Lane

The ceanothus in our garden is in full bloom and the bees are in paradise, you can hear them buzzing as they nimbly work from flower to flow...

Although today has been distinctly wintry on the whole we are surrounded by signs of spring.  Our pond was a ferment of frogs last week, at ...

A couple of days ago I took this photograph of some of the roses in the garden, attracted by the beauty of the tightly furled buds, their cr...