Week 41 - spread the LOVE

 

Apart from the date, there are no photos to accompany the words this week. I may have mentioned previously that I LOVE photography? So much so that I have many photos on my phone, in addition to all those that I take with my camera, and I've made the decision not to take any more photos with either until most of those on my phone have been transferred to my PC and saved onto DVD for long term storage. I've been transferring 10 pictures per day from the backlog, naming, editing and filing in date order as I go. Thus far I've reached mid-August, so only another couple of months worth left to do - should get that job completed over the next week or so, and photos will accompany my next post.

In the mean time, the past week has been filled with many things I LOVE. I was invited to accompany DiL ES and GD8 on a swimming trip to Bath (no pun intended), and as it was GD8's first time, we spent it entirely in the splash pool. It took her a little while to get used to the environment, the water and the noise, but after half an hour or so she was LOVING it, and so was I, the water was warm and one area was just deep enough to do some proper swimming without rubbing my knees on the bottom. It was my first time swimming in a couple of years, and I had forgotten how much I LOVE it.

I continue to enjoy the yarden, getting out into the fresh air as often as I can, I'm LOVING the change into autumnal colours, and preparing everything for the cooler months ahead. I have pulled and eaten some carrots, and the last of the lettuce. It has been very dry, we've been stuck in a period of Dunkelflaute (anticyclonic gloom) for a couple of weeks now, and it's been very dry, I'm afraid that I might have lost a couple of my favourite plants, having not noticed how dry their pots had become. Rainfall is forecast for the coming weekend.

I continue to LOVE crocheting, another blanket is nearing completion. 

I continue to spread the LOVE wherever and whenever I can, how about you? 

 

Week 39 and Week 40, including a LOVELY trip away for a few days

 

I'm a bit of a home bird, I LOVE my yarden and I LOVE making things. September is my favourite month, and I LOVE the three months of autumn because of the magnificent colours, which show up best of all this month, October.

 

Whilst I do LOVE being at home, it's also great to have a few days away now and then. GM and I don't do the fortnight in the sun type holidays, we just nip away for a few days now and then whenever the fancy takes us. Bristol is not too far away, only 35 minutes by train(!!) and there were a few things I fancied seeing, so off we went. We had a LOVELY time, seeing a few of my favourite things.

 

How's your week going? Are you spreading LOVE? Nothing is more important.

September Photographic Scavenger Hunt

You probably know by now that I LOVE photography, and I LOVE a Scavenger Hunt. Eileen's monthly Hunt is one I always try to join in. The subject for September was BLUE. Did she pick my favourite colour on purpose, I'm wondering?

Here are my (mostly indoor) Blue offerings:

 

 

October's theme is PATTERNS. Why not join us? Thank you Eileen.

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.