I love November
I always used to hate November: greyness, wetness, short days and dank, dark nights. It felt to me as if the world turned inward and the light left the sky and as the days darkened my energy dropped and so did my mood. When did my feelings change? I am not sure. My mother died in November and my father two years later in December. I think that these losses combined with my own growing sense of how fast time runs away with you have shifted me towards wanting to make the very most of each day. I can't afford to discount three or four months of the year. How many more years are there? I have no idea but I should make my days count. And lo and behold! It is possible to change the patterns of a lifetime! It is possible to find things to love in November and to be energised and excited, just as much as in Spring. Over the last few years I have found lots of ways to feel good in November and for me that seems to require some particular things to shape my day: Going Outside Far a
The dog is lovely, so are the wildflowers in the meadow. Everyone was feeling their oats today, I gather. Some days are like that. Did you feel like that dog yourself, Elizabeth? Silly and rambunctious? Things are growing mightily.
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I can just hear you break out into that famous "Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day..."
ReplyDeleteI know your part of the world quite well. When the sun is shining, it's staggeringly beautiful. When it's cold and miserable, it's still the same.
ReplyDeleteYour dog looks like a black version of our Monty.
How lovely, you can't help but smile at those pictures x
ReplyDeleteWelsh rain seems to do this - overnight what was neat and trim turns into a misty, steaming mass of green.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos - and what a happy dog! Must be nice to just roll about in the grass without a care.
ReplyDeleteWell, it all looks absolutely beautiful doesn't it? The blessed wind here is threatening to ruin my peonies (paeonies?), but at last we have had sun....yet it rains as I type! x
ReplyDeleteBy the shadows you must have been up at the crack of dawn! Yes, everything is racing away. Makes me want to run in and hide from it until next spring.
ReplyDeleteSomeone's enjoying life! B Baggins enjoys a good roll around too. Must admit that as soon as I read the words in your title I completed it with 'as an elephant's eye'! I think that dates me - anyone who remembers Oklahoma has to be of reasonably advanced years:) It's still a great musical and that's from someone who actually doesn't like musicals overmuch.
ReplyDeleteLovely to see a dog so joyful! I can't wait till Flossie has grass of her own to lie in....
ReplyDeleteSo lush.
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I miss my dogs....
ReplyDeleteThe fox and cubs is lovely - am thinking of planting some myself in our paddock, if I can just get organised :-(
ReplyDeleteLovely! We have had a very wet spring interspersed with a few sunny days here and there, which generate alarming boosts of growth. One day mown lawn, the next day ankle high and sopping wet. But there's a particular beauty to grass seed heads dipping low and dripping. I love your photos. It makes me wish very much that we could afford to travel.
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