A Morning Of Sunshine.

Appreciating nature.

Is there anything more special than witnessing the early morning wake-up call that sunshine brings after a night of rain? The gentle raindrops changing shape as they are steamed up by the burgeoning sun. Almost ethereal and definitely magical. Seen against a backdrop of lushious green hedges, the rising mist is outed in its minutiae of atoms.

Almost overnight the crops have grown, the greens have strengthened in intensity and the air has become crystal clear. See-through if it weren't for the rising pockets of mist everywhere.

We desperately needed and need rain thus making it okay to be hibernating indoors while the sky is gushing its blessings but there is nothing so divine as greeting a sunny day afterwards. Walking onto a freshly washed landscape, feeling the still slight chill in the air that usually follows a rainy night and appreciating the sheer pureness of the air around.

One would imagine that lawns have grown an unwanted inch overnight judging by the sounds of lawnmowers chuckling back and forth on the major neighbourhood lawns. The neat-as-a-pin-garden-cliques who somehow have chosen the road taken by those who love to ignore the signs of climate change, or more bluntly, the hungry buzz of bees, bugs and birds. I live in hope that they will change lanes in the not to distant future.

At least some parts of our garden still provide a bountiful buffet for bees, bugs and birds. Will it help the world at large? Perhaps not but at least it will provide amply for those thousands of animals that make up our garden ecosystem.

Biggi