#rosarrowsmith

Today is the most beautifully sunny day – and very cold.  These bright blue skied days with the crisp cold are one of my favourite times of year.  This morning, our back garden was frozen with a hoar frost, encasing the leaves and emphasising their shapes.  Now that I’m writing this, I’m wondering why I didn’t get my camera out, but the small matter of getting my son and I ready to leave the house has something to do with it!

In my workshop, the weather makes a huge difference to feel of the space.  If the sun shines, light floods in from a great big window that was the old double-doored entrance to the stable block and the door that we use now is also glass.  The room heats up and a particular favourite pastime is to have a tea break sitting at the window, dosing up on vitamin D in the cold winter months.  

I live in the city and commute to the countryside which helps me notice the changing of the seasons even more strongly because I’m not constantly surrounded by it in such a big way. My farmer landlord tells me about his daily activities, be they drilling (sowing) sugar beet or harvesting parsley.

Now, the blossom is starting to explode in the hedgerows and I can hear a few more birds calling.  The daffodils are threatening to take over from the snowdrops and the crocuses are poking up as well to add a different colour to the proceedings.  The days are getting longer and I no longer have to do a balancing act between getting my keys out, turning out the main lights and then the kitchen lights before madly waving outside to get the sensor light to come on and show me where the keyhole is to lock up.