Thursday April 23, 2026

Goodnight friends! Another day hotly kissed by approaching summer, a similar clear cool blustering start that wildly shook the fingered crimson leaves of the ornamental maple and a similar still, almost sultry afternoon that floated around 18°c. The last daffodil stalks dessicate like spent match heads, the first tentative umbels of wild carrot and cow-parsley begin to uncoil.

A mixed success of taking things careful and easy, I did start slow and mainly moved slow, but I did also end up excitably reconnecting with a long-time online friend and doing quite a bit of drawing.

May we work to communicate with care, compassion and honesty today!

Image ID: Photo of the spire of a church, a dark angular shape against a pale blue sky, seen through a curtain of birch leaves incandescent with raking afternoon light in shimmering tones of green and gold.

Photo of a tiny pale silver cresent of moon in a bright blue sky, framed above by a few slender twigs tipped with vivid green leaves, and below by branches laden with pale pink cherry blossom emerging from shadow.