Year of Grace, Day 69. Two magpies

A Haiku —

Two magpies perched on a birch

One winter morn

Bathing in the rare sun!

 

 

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Lemon blossom scents the sitting room,

In the garden  — orange-throated nasturtiums,

Gaudy cyclamen and spindle berries,

Cyclamen

Spindle berries (Euonymus)

Hydrangea flowerheads in purply-pink and a rare late-blooming blue bellflower,

Hydrangea autumn colouring

Campanula

Sights on a forest walk in the afternoon — orange fungi and enokidake (Flammulina),

Flammulina (enokidake)

Filmy foliage against the white and black trunks of birches.

Dinner of porcini soup, garlicky roasted broccoli with parmesan, turkey saltimbocca, and caramelized apples —

For all these blessing today, I am thankful!