Early Spring Flowers

 

The first flowers of Spring in my tiny garden   

Amaryllis Red Lion

Growing an amaryllis is a great treat.
An enormous, stout stem springs up,
followed by huge flamboyant flowers.
  









 This one is Red Lion. It has lit up the kitchen.

looking at trees

the sun broke though
heavy grey clouds
and then
winter branches were
alive against the sky,

the ivy wrapped round them
glowed green and vital,

it was a beautiful day
to sit on a wall
and wait

Household Guardians 2

This is the more literary of the two cats. Or perhaps culinary, as this is a shelf of cookery books. He's been sleeping here for about two weeks now, and regularly knocks some of the books onto the floor as he jumps down. I pick up the book on top of the scattered pile on the floor and cook supper from it. Cooking a meal from '1001 Chocolate Treats' was a bit of a challenge!

winter mountains

Driving over the mountain road to
Ebbw Vale took me through a
wonderful white landscape.
I liked the little tufts of grass peeping through the snow.

Household Guardians 1

Here is Amon Ra, sitting by my computer. He was a Christmas reindeer soft toy, but I took off his festive bow tie and attached a Suffolk Puff (fabric constructed shape) to his antlers. Now I have an Ancient Egyptian guardian for the computer.

I am thinking of moving him however, as the cat keeps batting him with his paws, and knocking him onto the floor, and I don't think it shows the proper respect.