Tag Archives: Spring

Update

Posted on May 8, 2013 by freda

5 weeks and 1 day on and my ankle is healing well. I am still wrapped in tubi-grip but the pain is not so constant.  Sitting with my leg up is no problem on rainy days, but not so good … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , , | 8 Comments

Waiting

Posted on February 14, 2013 by freda

  Not long now till my favourite time of the year. Come March – my Birthday Month, in case anyone has forgotten – the signs of spring are evident all around: crocuses, buds swelling on the bushes, birds getting vocal … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , , | 5 Comments

Promise of Spring

Posted on February 18, 2012 by freda

This is typical of the views around the village at the moment. The promise of spring is in the brighter green of the mosses and the swelling at the ends of the trees. Catkins are even appearing on some of … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Enforced break

Posted on January 31, 2012 by freda

It is good to be back in blogland again. The last week or two have been an enforced rest, courtesy of power cuts, email cuts and blog-hosting problems. It is strange how unsettling it has felt, and now that all … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

Catching up

Posted on May 10, 2011 by freda

The good weather has been replaced by typical Scottish spring weather: big black clouds, thunderplumps and brief periods of sunshine. And at the same time there have been two seismic shifts in the world: the death of Osama bin Laden … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Hard Winter and Spring

Posted on May 12, 2010 by freda

Here is the sign of a hard spring – the deer are constantly foraging around the house, and they are still coming into the garden. Misty is very funny, she growls and rumbles low in her throat and quivers with … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Spring is springing

Posted on May 2, 2009 by freda
Posted in Blog | Tagged | Leave a comment

Signs

Posted on February 18, 2009 by freda

Three snowdrops, five crocus/es/i – all in places too awkward places to photograph. Unmistakeably signs of an approaching spring. Let us not dwell on the possibility that it won’t actually happen for another two months.

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Where did spring go?

Posted on April 27, 2008 by freda

Came home today after a couple of days away visiting friends. Something had happened in Dalamory whilst we were absent: spring had never come and the summer arrived. So we had a barbecue. And very good it was too.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

Spring at last

Posted on April 12, 2008 by freda

Misty had her first paddle in the river; there are wood anemones in flower under the trees; a pair of blue-tits have set up house in the newly re-erected bird-box; and I was enticed out into the garden for an … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment