The first thing I do, once we have unpacked our car, which has been groaning with all the stuff we need for a week's stay in the holiday cottage, is head for the outer gardens of Colonsay House. It is a place of wonder for me! I particularly love the leaves of the giant rhododendrons. There are many different varieties, all planted in the early 1930s. The outer gardens are generally overgrown, having had little tending over the decades. That makes them even more magical! The old woodmill falls apart a little more every year, but that's fine by me because I love corrugated iron and especially if it's rusted! And of course the bees. Colonsay's beekeeper, Andrew Abrahams, has one of his apiaries on the edge of the pine wood. So lovely - the hum of busy bees and the heady smell of the pines. We are here - finally! Delayed by four months by the wretched virus, but now I am on holiday! Hooray!
We've only had one very light early morning frost that didn't make enough impression on the shrubs to show up on a photo.
ReplyDeleteWe did have a day of intermittent hailstones, rain, sun, snow! But now the rain is back with a vengeance - roll on summer; I am craving sunshine warming me as I sit outside with a book.
Lovely to hear from you! Happy New Year. I have almost forgotten what the warmth of sunshine feels like! There was snow on the Lammermuir Hills last night. I have taken a photo, from a distance, so don't know if it has come out well enough to post here. I will check! In the meantime, I'm with you - roll on spring, summer, sunshine - anything brighter than this!
DeleteLooks like someone has been out icing the countryside....dusting it with light sugar....lovely. x
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