Saturday...

I have to admit that I haven't properly been in the garden for over a week, which is part of the reason I'm sharing another of my grandparent's postcards...

I've been spending a lot of time on trains over the last fortnight, but I have also 

been trying to get in a bike ride most days. This morning's bike ride ( ahead of the train journey I'm currently on ) was so beautiful; there were so many Hawthorn berries about, and the lichen was looking very fresh...

...the cycle path is full of wild flowers which I sort of thought must have finished by now because of the amount of Autumn berries about...

but, onto the postcard...

I can't quite decipher all of it but here is what I can make of it:

6pm Wednesday 11th September 1935 ( posted at 6:30 from Tenby to my Grandfather staying in Guernsey )

Hello Buddy Dear,

Have just returned from o.f ! Such a glorious ride.

Won't Cov seem flat when we get back? Haven't heard any more about getting back, Stones think 8am. Please come home safely love won't you?

Did you hear about Alan Cobham display at Blackpool? 1 pilot killed, also 2 passengers.

Rough sea and high tide tonight. Hope it won't be out for your crossing.

Best of love once more, love.

Ever with love, your Baby xxx

Hope you all have a great weekend...

Saturday Gold...

It's the details in nature that have always completely fascinated me and I am perpetually amazed and grateful at the abundance of beautiful wild plants and creatures, with their extroidinary designs surrounding us.

 There is a passage in the preface of this 1930's book 'The Look-About-You Nature Book' which says:

...there is no branch of education at the present day that bears in the young, such excellent fruit as the study of the simple living things around us.

Obviously I particularly love flowers, but it’s also the simple everyday things which are around me that are often so inspiring.

There’s a chapter in the book called Dew, Frost and Rain. which I think is so brilliant as, in my opinion, it is just as important to observe these things as everything that grows...it's all part of it...

I was making my way back home when I thought I'd have another fix of the scented rose garden in the park, when I realised that the wild flower areas ( which used to be bowling greens ) had also started to explode...

I can't remember the last time I saw so much wild Vipers Burgloss and it was making the bees go crazy...

These flowers weren't there for picking, but their colours definitely inspired today's table...

Monday...

I did a lot of driving over the weekend, and it was lovely to come back with some family roses...

I'm completely knackered today.. so intend to simply enjoy the garden!