Catching up with a fellow blogger, Unexpectedincommonhours, I found this delightful video which sums up my philosophy too. As she says, it may be a children’s song, but it is a good way to live. Debs also had this quotation – perfect. Thank you.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. (Martha Washington)
I love how dead Hydrangea flowers are so delicate and still so lovely. Appropriately I found this one in St Euny Churchyard in among the Bluebells. It is Earth Day today and here is a beautiful poem celebrating nature by Rudyard Kipling, “The Way Through The Woods”. What a lyrical evocation of the beauty to be found….
THEY shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a path through the woods Before they planted the trees: It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones. Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove broods And the badgers roll at ease, There was once a road through the woods.
Yet, if you enter the woods Of a summer evening late, When the night-air cools on the trout-ring’d pools Where the otter whistles his mate (They fear not men in the woods Because they see so few), You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet And the swish of a skirt in the dew, Steadily cantering through The misty solitudes, As though they perfectly knew The old lost road through the woods … But there is no road through the woods.
1 It’s Earth Day today and we recognised the day by planting two new shrubs in our garden, Choisya Ternata which smells lovely and another whose name escapes me at the moment and it’s too dark outside now to go out and read the label!!
Earth Day
2 There’s a new horse in the field behind our house, very beautiful.
New horse visiting us
3 Sometimes I get such a yen for Marmite! I just had to make some Marmite and Red Onion Scones which are delicious when still a bit warm and with butter on! You can find the recipe and see the photos on my new Food, Recipes and Photos Page. (How can I link that page to this post? Any help out there, please?) The thought of scones was planted in my head by Choc Chip Uru of http://gobakeyourself.wordpress.com/ but I needed the savoury ones this time.
It is Earth Day today and here is a beautiful poem celebrating nature by Rudyard Kipling, “The Way Through The Woods”. What a lyrical evocation of the beauty to be found….
