Goodnight friends! Warm and bright with plumey curlicues and drifting gauze-screen clouds in the hazy blue sky. Tiny grasshoppers, seeming like pale straw yellow early instar versions of the ones I’m used to, already extravagantly loud, their dry mechanical chrr-chrr-chrring suffusing the barely swaying oat-grass and their underlayer of day vetch seedpods and bright yellow meadow peas, the perfect music for the early afternoon’s dry heat. A more humid early evening gradually slid into a faint cascade of thinz ongoing overnight drizzle.
A bleary, cotton wool weight of post-activity malaise sank heavily over me, not so much crushing as dragging, smothering, a diffuse, omnipresent pain and exhaustion. I managed an abbreviated walk, out to the churchyard but not around it, knowing it would be most of what I could do for the day – I think the sunlight and joint mobility helped my medium-teem prospects, as much as the aftermath drained me for today.
May we find rest and recovery today!
Image ID: Photo of bright sunlight falling across and transmitted through broad, glowing heart shaped linden leaves, the hanging twigs tipped by little clusters of creamy white flowers with pincushion bundles of splayed stamens.
