19 Jun Saturday Gold…
It’s the details in nature that have always completely fascinated me and I am perpetually amazed and grateful at the abundance of beautiful wild plants and creatures, with their extroidinary designs surrounding us.
There is a passage in the preface of this 1930’s book ‘The Look-About-You Nature Book’ which says:
…there is no branch of education at the present day that bears in the young, such excellent fruit as the study of the simple living things around us.
Obviously I particularly love flowers, but it’s also the simple everyday things which are around me that are often so inspiring.
There’s a chapter in the book called Dew, Frost and Rain. which I think is so brilliant as, in my opinion, it is just as important to observe these things as everything that grows…it’s all part of it…
I was making my way back home when I thought I’d have another fix of the scented rose garden in the park, when I realised that the wild flower areas ( which used to be bowling greens ) had also started to explode…
I can’t remember the last time I saw so much wild Vipers Burgloss and it was making the bees go crazy…
These flowers weren’t there for picking, but their colours definitely inspired today’s table…
dizz
Posted at 09:33h, 21 JuneI’m just new to your blog and I already know that I love it. It’s a daily delight. Thank you!
philippa stanton
Posted at 06:43h, 26 JuneThank you so much!! Really glad you enjoy it 😀