Sacha wrote:
-2C here last night. Mercifully there's no wind but my goodness, it's cold!
Frost is still lying in one or two parts of the garden which haven't felt
the sun of a glorious winter's day. Tonight, the temperature is falling
like a stone and after a trip to the chiropractor for both of us, the cold
almost undid all the good he'd done to our creaky spines.
Yesterday morning, Ray looked out of our bedroom window at about 7.30am and
exclaimed at the extraordinary sight of what looked like a bright red light
shining some distance away. It was almost fluorescent. It was only after a
few moments observation that we realised it was the sun. We've never seen
anything quite like it and in mediaeval times, I think it would have been a
portent, though of what, I don't know. When I did the well worn "red sky in
the morning..." Ray chipped in with "shepherd's cottage on fire"! Last week
we woke up to a sunrise that was pink right across the sky, looking exactly
like a sunset. The times they are a-changing!
My friend over and down? in Bournemouth said tonight that there was a
LOT of frost on everything as he was going to the internet cafe. And he
mentioned that it was also "bloody cold"...........over here...errrrr,
ummm, it got up to 70o F, but there is currently a HUGE winter blizzard
slamming Denver and moving through the plains states headed for me here
on the eastern edge. Not sure if that means rain for me or what. The
day was warm enough that I actually had a tank top, sandals and jeans on
to go down the long driveway to the mailbox today. It was surreal. I'd
not be surprised to find at least THUNDERSTORMS here by the time the
weather moves into the region. I hope everyone is geared up for
Solstice.....I'm more pumped this year about that than the actual
approach of Christmas. But having said that........I just got a most
awesome package from said previously mentioned friend in Bournemouth who
sent me Nettle tea, Fennel tea, Twinings Rhubarb & Blackberry tea and
Echinacea & Raspberry tea.....awesome! (I'm easy to please.........) he
also sent me 8 music cd's he's been agonizing over for weeks to send me.
I'm in hopes to write some wintery but out of season rambles based on
the pictures I've taken of the gardens this past spring and summer and
didn't write about at all due to being very distracted. Bad health has
kicked me butt, but I am slowly and agonizingly healing up, with set
backs of physicality's and more infections, from whence I know not where
they come from..................OLD AGE AIN'T FOR SISSIES~
madgardener up on the ridge back in a cold fairy holler, overlooking
English Mountain