Here we are into July already…..one month of winter gone….we’ve had wintery weather to go with it too…..wet days and dry days…..cold grey days when you wish you didn’t have to get out of bed. Days when you are thankful for being retired and not ‘having’ to be responsible…..for anything or even anyone. Nights with strong winds and teeming rain.
Then days when it’s been dry enough to do a little bit of tidying up in the garden – a garden sorely neglected over this past summer. This past week we had sunny days, days comfortable enough to not have the heating on – sunny and comfortable enough to gather up the energy to give the roses their annual haircut.
I can’t help but feel a little lighter in mind and spirit when I notice signs of life out there. Things that – unlike me – rise to the occasion during these cold months.
Blurry photos of early Jonquils- Narcissi- Winter Iris…blowing in the wind. Taken a couple of days ago.
They don’t seem to ‘see’ the weedy grasses that shouldn’t be where they are or the old fallen leaves on the ground around them…….or even my old enemy, the bulbous Oxalis that spreads across every open spot it can find.
Of course it’s early days still – winter stays around much longer. Spring doesn’t arrive here until September!
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Ode to the West Wind – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Still Waters 
Your garden is much further along its path to Spring than ours. We have a few paperwhite narcissus out, and three (yes I am counting) anenome. It is couch grass which is my garden nemesis. It spreads faster than gossip.
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Yes even my rides had started to bud. Might me a good sign
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I’ve never though of spring beginning this way. Of course, our Ohio winters are far more brutal.
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I have to force myself to rise to the occasion each morning lately. Far too comfortable snuggled up in bed…that is, until my two furry bedfellows decide it’s time I gave them their breakfast!!! 🙂
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It is odd that you talk of winter and spring as we enjoy the fullness of summer. We have all suffered a few cooler, wet weeks here throughout June but hopeful the sun will now continue through July. I am not sure we are going to be ‘overheated’ this summer like last year!
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Daffodils are always lovely, harbingers of days to come. My garden is in full summer bloom now, just lovely.
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August and September are usually are most wintery months across the ditch…even though it’s supposed to be saying “spring” it just doesn’t…
Today is supposed to be raining, badly – it’s mid arvo and sun is out…although there is a stiff breeze and intermittent blow-thru’ showers…
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