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Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Monday, 3 April 2023
Monday, 11 May 2015
Blooming Interlude
As lovely as having a garden can be, they involve a great deal of work to keep them looking effortlessly beautiful.
Yesterday, sporting pink gardening gloves, I freed a small patch of its carpet of weeds. A weed which initially looked pretty, with shiny green, watercress-shaped leaves and tiny, fluorescent yellow flowers, but ended up with the whole garden in its grip.
After that, the next step was rejuvenation, as I removed the dead plants and filled the space with several, rather funky, red-tipped grasses called: Red Baron (Imperata cylindrca). Buster, my tom cat, helped—digging, peering into plant-ready holes and pouncing on earthworms, as they wriggled out of clods of earth.
But that wasn't the end of it, because once you start, something else will need attention. The vegetable plants and herbs that had been dominating the house for so long, were clamoring to be let out to play: courgettes and gerkins, aubergines and tomatoes, basil, coriander, cumin etc—they all received their wish—sunny spots in pots.
Today, with my coffee, I relax and admire the results of my labour, resigned to the accompanying aches and pains, from all that bending and crouching—right to my very fingertips. Although my efforts are but a scratch on the tip of an iceberg—the weeds have been warned!
Hmmm, what's that noise? I'm sure I can hear the sound of tiny, revving engines...
© Alison Day
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Spring Delight
Below our favourite coffee place: Spinnato, in Palermo, which dates back to 1860. A lovely place to sit for morning coffee, an aperitif or to while away an afternoon.
Alongside the news stand, with its giant yo-yo-like planters.
© Alison Day
Friday, 17 April 2015
Saturday, 21 March 2015
The Queue
At last, the first day of Spring and there's already a queue in the garden ;)
For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and coverBlossom by blossom the spring begins.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
© Alison Day
Friday, 13 March 2015
Gold Springtime
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
—William Wordsworth
© Alison Day
Saturday, 20 September 2014
Opposite Julia
Opposite Julia by Alison Day
On a city break to Rome in May this year, this was the view from our window at Hotel Julia.
#PaintingSeptember #Paintseptember
Saturday, 10 May 2014
On a Stick!
Here are a couple of photos I took of an Indian, street artist duo that I spotted on a Spring jaunt to Rome earlier this year together with my sister.
They had set up their act round the corner from the Pantheon. Both were meditating and amazingly whilst doing so, one was holding the other up in the air, ... on a stick! Needless to say they drew a lot of curiosity from passers-by.
So, what do you think and any ideas how they did it? ;)
Posted with BlogsyTuesday, 12 March 2013
Come Buy With Me
Spring will have definitely sprung...
Alison Day Designs) will be appearing at the Design Market: 11.00 - 17.00 Sunday 7 April on the Grote Markt, Groningen. Joining about 50-ish other stall holders offering their imaginative creations for sale.
Alison Day Designs) will be appearing at the Design Market: 11.00 - 17.00 Sunday 7 April on the Grote Markt, Groningen. Joining about 50-ish other stall holders offering their imaginative creations for sale.
So... if you happen to be in the area, why not drop by for a look, and who knows you may find something you just can't leave without!
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