Surprises !

K and I had some time in the West End before her flight back.

Home is very quiet after the weekend.

Today's surprises :

1. Red and green balloons in the pot cupboard -guess who has been here ?

2.The garden full of sunshine and daffodil buds opening

3. These beautiful pots displayed in the restaurant went to for lunch

4 This beautiful poem by Mary Oliver:

Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?
By Mary Oliver

There are things you can’t reach. But
you can reach out to them, and all day long.

The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of God.

And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.

The snake slides away; the fish jumps, like a little lily,
out of the water and back in; the goldfinches sing
from the unreachable top of the tree.

I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.

Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around as though with your arms open.

And thinking: maybe something will come, some
shining coil of wind, or a few leaves from any old tree–they are all in this too.

And now I will tell you the truth.
Everything in the world comes.

At least, closer.

And, cordially.

Like the nibbling, tinsel-eyed fish; the unlooping snake.
Like goldfinches, little dolls of goldfluttering around the corner of the sky
of God, the blue air.