It’s blowing a frigid gale in Wenlock today; Met Office warnings of 60-80 mph winds as Storm Doris comes tearing through. What a woman! Talk about flighty.
First thing this morning I had to dash outdoors in my nightie to rescue the sweet pea seedlings: they were being blown out of their pots. Not only that, the freshly open daffodils were all askew, and the garden canes whipped off the shed wall into giant Pick-Up-Sticks. Phew and phew. Just TOO much wind.
So it’s good to think about warmer weather, of lying in the grass on Windmill Hill, and peering at things botanical with the sun on my head. So thank you, Paula, for this week’s Thursday’s Special.
Focus is the watch word, however we care to interpret it, and it has had me happily trawling through summer days in my own version of A la recherche de temps perdu. Which also reminds me that Marcel Proust used to do his writing in bed. Today, with all the draughts, and in places where we never knew we had them before, this is a very tempting prospect. So I’m wondering if He Who Recycles Pallets Builds Walls And Binds Books would mind delivering sustenance at regular intervals to the office bed where I might huddle under the duvet with my laptop. Seems unlikely somehow.
Here’s another shot of the knapweed, this one well and truly open for business along with assorted small bugs:
Tish Farrell 
Great photos of knap weed, especially the first. No wind here in Delhi, so the smog is returning.
I shall think myself lucky then. No smog in Wenlock 🙂
Unbelievable! I was also in my nightie on my balcony chasing a pot early this morning. It is not Doris, but something similar. Beautiful reminiscence focusing on blooms and playful grass. I loved Proust (still do). Thank you for this bit of poetry on a raging, windy day. Please, cover yourself well 🙂
That’s so funny, Paula, both of us out on missions in our nightwear. Pleased to provide notions of more temperate climes for you and for me 🙂
😆 Cheers 🙂
So beautiful. I adore the photos.
Thank you, Jennie
You are welcome, Tish.
Lovely image, Tish….. The ferocious, feisty and fearsome Doris is here, too, and I nearly got blown off my feet earlier – not good for a person with compromised balance (in the physical sense, not the mind 😀)!!
Would never query your mental balance, Sue 🙂 Doris is also a Dirty Tricks Doris. Popped out to the shops in a sunny, if blustery, moment, only to be deluged in freezing sleety blizzard on the way home. Pah. Wet knees and frozen faces all round.
Ugh, doesn’t sound good….
Some lovely images Trish, not all of them photographic!
Gorgeous images, Tish!
First shot is a real keeper, worthy of enlarging and framing.
It has that … je ne sais what
Merci, Monsieur Ark for the je ne sais what. I suffer from this a lot. Now it has a title 🙂
The pallet bed builder would be awesome if he was also butler to a between the sheets writer. A perfect image Tish.
Now Gilly, you have me wondering how I can sneak this role into his current career path. Usually it’s me doing valet duty 🙂
Glorious, Tish! I chuckled all the way through and felt quite neglected not to have made it out into the garden in my fleecy jim jams (well, it’s too cold up here for flimsies 🙂 ). That first image is definitely the stuff of dreams.
Thank you, my dear. Maybe we should have a virtual pyjama party? Your place or mine?
I’m easy! 🙂 (or so I’ve heard 😦 )
:O
That ‘Doris’ sounds really wild, Tish. Glad you could do a quick rescue in your nightie. Love your beautiful images. The top one is especially breathtaking. 🙂
Doris has completely gone now and we have sunshine this morning. Talk about chop and change. Your appreciation much appreciated 🙂
What wonderful focus photos. I didn’t know knapweed was so pretty. Hope the storm passed you by without incident.
Thanks for the kind thoughts, Irene. All is peaceful today. Lots of bright light for taking photos 🙂
Love the first image and it almost seems windy….
It might well have been a bit windy up there. It usually is 🙂
Tish, that first shot is luminous! I love it. Glad Doris didn’t blow your nightgown away with the seedlings. 🙂
janet
It was touch and go, Janet. Could’ve ended up in Oz!
Gorgeous photos Tish.
Thanks, Claudette
Splendid focus!
Thank you, Anna.