Magic Mornings.

Rural routine.

In a way it is a good thing to walk the same route every day, well most days, as it frees my mind up to wander and discover left brain stuff. The tranquil side of our brains?

The whiff of horse manure must be one of the most pleasant rural perfumes about. Not the pig variety though...that is beastly and makes me shudder to think of these poor trotters stuck in their own manure. A horse and several donkeys live along the main village road and one or the other must have been responsible for the perfumed air. Nothing makes one feel more rural than stumbling upon anything horsey. Especially us girls as we tend to relive our youthful obsessions with riding horses.

A couple of paces further along two stellar red roses were valiantly standing their ground despite being close to wilting away. Summer is their heyday too and while birds are lining up to travel to their summer home, roses fade away after a mere season.

Most of the telephone wires have started to moonlight as platforms for troupes of swallows organizing their roll call for an early departure to warmer climes. Brave little souls, aren't they? At least this year they don't have to compete overly much with a gazillion planes. Corona does have some good points.

Today was the first Saturday of the month and that meant a barrage of tractors purring along to Höll in order to get rid of a whole lot of bulky rubbish. Gosh, there seems to be an never-ending supply of old mattresses, sofas and nightstands in our village. Without fail each and every first Saturday of the month the trek to the rubbish dump ensues. Hope they didn't forget to check if the mattresses had been used as banks.

Saturdays have such a nice and relaxed feel about them as most households fire up their engines an hour or two later then normal affording time for leisurely family breakfasts, lingering over newspapers and generally catching up and reconnecting with each other. Makes everyone more friendly when I run into them!

Mornings like today are wonderfully grounding and a great way to escape all the paraphernalia associated with 2020...

Biggi