Nature Diary..So humble

The sun shone all day. A gentle breeze blew. For once in a long time everything was like it used to be for years and years and many more years... a warm Spring day... With no news minute by minute, no corner shops being forced to close, and no worry about the washing getting wet if it should rain when you were out because the neighbour would bring it in, in a basket, and pop it through your unlocked back door so it didn't get wet. If the situation was reversed you would do the same for the neighbour.

I was lost for several minutes as I stood and gazed at the little group of plants in front of me ...simple but lovely. So very unchanging and so very familiar...
And I wondered:-

"What is this life if, full of care, 
We have no time to stand and stare."
...
"A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare."

(Ref the poem 'Leisure'
By  W.H. Davies)