Think...think....ohhhhh look a butterfly!...ohhhhh a pretty flower!

It's such a beautiful day today, the sun is shining and there is a breeze and not a cloud in the sky. I feel that I should be being creative but my mind and eye is constantly wandering outside in the garden to gaze at the blackthorn blossom and my two cherry trees blossoming, the lovely bluebells and the swathes of celendine and dandelions adding a bright yellow to my greening garden. How can I take my mind away from that? How can I stop watching and listening to the birds all day long? I have noticed a recent new sound of a chiffchaff to the garden and surrounding hedgerows and trees, that a lovely sound that makes. And then the sounds of the buzzards circling high up in the sky riding the thermals, without a care in the world until the rooks start to divebomb them when they stray too close to the rookeries.
 There is a heron around here, sits in the top of one of the trees. I have so far only seen one but I hope there is another. I see it fairly often when I come back from my morning walks.
 Yesterday I heard 5 different woodpeckers whilst out walking, it's unusual to hear that many and to hear them on so much of my walk. I know we have a couple of pairs around here, they're often in the surrounding trees.

 Being out in nature fills my soul and cheers me up. If you ever feel low then just get out of the door and walk, not just walk but breathe and take it all in. Just let your feet do their thing but let you mind, heart and soul take it all in. Soak it up like a sponge, it does us all wonders. I wish I could get my mum to do it but I think I'm fighting a losing battle where that is concerned!
 Even if I can't get out for a walk, just sitting in my garden has its benefits, especially if I can delve my hands into the soil and plant things, just knowing something that is growing and thriving in my garden is doing so because of me planting it and caring for it is just awesome.
 Watching the passing seasons, feeling the weather change and making mental notes of when different things flower, leaf and fruit.

 The blossom on the trees remind me of spring and summer at my primary school. The front playground was more than half covered by cherry trees with pink flowers and I remember leaning against the trunks and taking it all in, watching petals fall as the breeze moves through looking like giant snowflakes.
 At primary school we also celebrated spring, we had maypole dancing with a proper maypole that was raised in a specially made hole in the playground. We would wear flowery dresses and have flower crowns. I miss that. We need to do more of that in our schools and in our communities in general...ahhhh memories