Sofa

AgeUK delivered the sofa today after the aborted plans due to the snow last week … https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3061755685524996516 

After putting all the covers through the wash I went for a short walk through the woods.  I do love woodlands in winter … just me and the fairies … or, probably more accurately, me, away with the fairies.

Sleeping in the Forest - Mary Oliver

I thought the earth remembered me, she 
took me back so tenderly, arranging 
her dark skirts, her pockets 
full of lichens and seeds. I slept 
as never before, a stone 
on the riverbed, nothing 
between me and the white fire of the stars 
but my thoughts, and they floated 
light as moths among the branches 
of the perfect trees. All night 
I heard the small kingdoms breathing 
around me, the insects, and the birds
who do their work in the darkness. All night 
I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling 
with a luminous doom. By morning 
I had vanished at least a dozen times 
into something better.