Week 38, I LOVE September, my favourite month . . .

 . . . and it's already more than 3/4 done.

 

Loads of LOVELY pictures of loads of LOVELY things that have happened this week.

I LOVE gardening and I LOVE letter-writing. I'm very fortunate to have found Deborah, who LOVES the same things I do, and we have been swapping letters since January. Deborah sent me some sunflower seeds so that we could sow them on the same day, and watch them grow. Sadly neither my first sowing, nor my second, produced any plants. Fortunately is was a matter of third time lucky, so my sunflower plants are a good month behind hers, in fact mine have still to flower. This is how the tallest and most advanced looks today. By this time next week it will have the most magnificent flower - unless of course the weather decides not.

 

As the weather cools down into autumn, there's already a risk of frosty mornings, so my geraniums, which I've LOVINGLY nurtured for a few years now, need to come indoors for the winter, here are some of them on the lounge window sill.

 

Monday was a glorious day, with LOVELY sunshine, so the Green Man and I went out for a picnic lunch to a local beauty spot. I took the long lens for my new camera, which I LOVE, and was rewarded with this LOVELY shot,

 and this is the view from the car window across the Common

 

My absolutely gorgeous GD5, whom I LOVE (and probably spoil) comes to us after school most Mondays. To my absolute delight, she too LOVES writing.

 

Earlier this month I picked all the tomatoes that were left on the plants, and I'm pleased to report that they are now all ripe (and some have been eaten), they taste delicious.

 

 

GD5 has an older half-sister, to whom I'm not actually related but LOVE as if she were one of my own. She has recently passed-out as a serving Police Officer, after following her dreams. Well done Cess.

 

And as the cooler weather approaches once more, the oldest LOVE of my life, knitting, re-emerges. I started this jerkin some months ago, but I rarely knit through the summer months, so it's only just been completed. I'm hoping it will be LOVELY and warm for the cooler months.

 

Have you been spreading the LOVE this week? 

 

Week 37 Spreading LOVE

 

There's so much negativity in the big wide world right now, so many disenfranchised and so much suffering, it's sometimes hard not to despair of humanity. Why can we not all LOVE instead of hate, help each other instead of killing each other, welcome all peoples as friends, no matter who or what? So many folk need LOVE. How many people can you send LOVE to right now? Can we, individually, shift the global culture to one of LOVE? Wouldn't it be LOVELY if we could. I'm doing my little bit in my little patch.

Besides sending LOVE out into the world at large, I've been LOVING quiet time at home, harvesting from the yarden, and generally spreading peace and goodwill wherever I can. Join me?

Are you able to spread LOVE? It's not difficult. 

I would LOVE to thank whoever it was that shared my blog somewhere. One of my recent posts has had over 2,000 views. That's so amazing. I LOVE it. 

 

Weeks 35 & 36, doing what I LOVE and LOVING what I do

 

I went to stay for a few days with a long-time friend in Hastings, and visited another who has just recently moved there. A wonderful sharing of fun, laughter and LOVE.

 

 

 

The time spent in my yarden has been productive. I LOVE to eat fresh produce straight after picking.

 

With everything that's now happening in the big world "out there", it's more important than ever to spread LOVE. I LOVE you all for reading this, and I LOVE you if you don't read it.

Please, please spread LOVE whenever/wherever you can. 

Monthly photo Challenge, August

Every month Eileen sets a photo challenge, the theme for August was "Living".

I  was quite busy with GDs through August, so I didn't have much time on my hands, but I did find a few things.

Dead leaves on a LIVING plant (runner beans) 

 LIVING tomatoes, almost ready to ripen

 

Pests LIVING in my flowers

 

A LIVING cutting of lavender

 Lettuces LIVING on my windowsill

 These rats are LIVING next door, I looked after them while their family were on holiday

 This tree is not LIVING in the best place, it's in Tesco car park, but it survives

 The theme for September is BLUE. Joining us?