Brilliant light

Today has been the most amazing day because the sun has been out again and the air has been moving, sweeping away all the muggy air that's accumulated over the last few days from this massive city I'm in. When it's nice, the city sweeps along - people waft around like they own the place but without the grey look that normally accompanies the concrete surrounding them. Now everyone's smiling and at least attempting to have a great time. With the sun of course has come the flowering of all the multitude of plants in our garden, showing off their full charm, the many clematis showing this best of all.

"One swallow does not make a summer."

-- Aristotle

One of my friends, in a reather sanctimonious moment, quoted this to me, but I don't really care too much. Any birds are perfect to me! We've actually had loads of birds twittering around the house and gardens. We try and not use anything with loads of chemicals in, meaning our grass lawn is probably the safest place for birds to feast in the whole area being that before we came to the property the garden was left for dead really - the previous owners being completely disinterested. I wake up in the horribly early 6th hour of the day to the sound of finches and blackbirds singing to each other through the trees. Of course in the evenings we have to content with the dreaded pigeons, but that's some small price to pay for everything else that's beautiful at the moment!