FLOWER FRIDAY - BUT NOT STRICTLY A FLOWER!

After I had been out for a walk yesterday afternoon, I saw some dandelion seed heads in the grass just as I walked into our road and thought they would make a good Blip for Flower Friday.

Mr. HCB always gives me a weather report when I am waking up - I’ve got used to it over the years, so it’s quite good to know what to wear even before I get out of bed!

Today was no exception and his comment as he looked out of the window was, “There was a hard frost last night.”  I told him I was going to go and pick the dandelion seed heads and now I don’t even worry what the neighbours will say - they know I am mad anyway - but I knew I needed to get down and pick them before the sun melted the frost, so it didn’t take me long to get up and get dressed.  I thought the sight of me in my pink robe and slippers might disturb the neighbours at the bottom of the road who don’t know me that well and I could easily get carted off!

Job done, I came back indoors and took lots of photographs with both the Canon and the Panasonic, but liked this one best - in fact, it was the first photograph I took with the Canon.  One of our neighbours had given me a little photograph booth that pops up and then folds down after use, so I had set that up before I went to pick the seed heads, so it was all ready - and a good job it was, because the sun soon melted the frost.

It’s a beautiful sunny morning, the Goldfinches are still coming in, at least twelve and sometimes sixteen at a time, to our new feeders, I’m meeting a friend for lunch and a Blip friend is coming for a meal later - so a good start to what promises to be a good day.

"FROST, 
     like the crystallized dreams 
          of autumn, 
               began to coat the clearing 
                    with its sugar glaze.” 
Victoria Steele Logue : Redemption

P.S.  Thank you for all your good wishes yesterday - our arms are still heavy and sore, but better today than they were yesterday so we are trying to take on board what GallopingGran, a lovely Blip friend said, “You've got good things to look forward to, so think about that and it won't seem so bad.”