Dead?

It has been a glorious spring day, warm in the sunshine. We have had doors open, bringing fresh air indoors. At one stage I was sitting in the sunshine by an open door, doing my embroidery, with the sound of the vacuum cleaner in the background as my new cleaner was at work. I count my blessings.
I managed to get outside again today and liked the way these grasses were lit up by the sun. Earlier in the week Normous was prowling around, secateurs in hand, looking for things to chop down, and couldn’t understand why I wanted this left. “But it is dead!” he said.