It is a glorious spring here in England. Our house is now surrounded by the brilliant yellow glow of the rapeseed fields. The color is so stunning as to seem unreal. Perhaps we’re actually in the midst of some pointillist or impressionist landscape? In the Heath Wood, where Derby and I walked this morning, a [...]
Yesterday, we brought a new member of the family home.
Derby (pronounced “Darby”) is a Springer Spaniel and is about 11 weeks old. He’s of the field breed rather than the show lineage of springer spaniels. We had a great time meeting Derby and his mum and his brothers and sisters. They were all really beautiful. [...]
Earlier this week, I went for a walk along along Baslow Edge, Birchen Edge and Gardom Edge, following the interface between the gritstone ridges and moorland. It is beautiful country.
I parked just up the hill from Curbar village and soon found myself on Baslow Edge where there was an amazing view of Curbar Edge and [...]
We had a party to celebrate Sage’s birthday last weekend. She invited some of friends from school.
The kids painted pots and planted “kinderplants” for the local nursery.
An unusual amount of music was played during the party. An impromptu orchestra formed, rehearsing a spontaneous composition.
There was also some game playing.
And until the rain sent everyone back [...]
I got some nice birthday cards today!
I also got nice cards from the Perry’s and lots of good wishes from friends at facebook. Thanks, everyone!
We went to River’s school concert tonight. She played a duet she’s been working on with her friend Grace.
At the End of the Rainbow
She recently joined the strings ensemble. They played this piece:
Olga Square Dance
Finally, River is also in the choir and they sang a few songs as well.
Simple Melody by Irving Berlin
and
To the [...]
We’ve had a pretty good run on nice weather recently and it was a beautiful, sunny day again today. We spent a good portion of our time gardening: cleaning out beds from last year and planting some new flowers.
First, we took a trip down the street to the nursery. River’s friend Alex came along for [...]
Inspired by Melody’s yellow series, here is some yellow from Swarkestone:
The first blooms of spring have started to appear. The snowdrops have been out for a bit now and the rest of the bulbs have been leaping from the soil to join them.
We have had some nice spring weather recently and I decided to go exploring. I’d read about Froggatt Edge in the Peak District as a good spot for climbing. I found a spot to park on the side of the road and wandered through the forest and up the hillside until I came to the [...]
River and Sage had a Tae Kwon Do grading yesterday morning. Somehow 9:00am seems too early on a Sunday morning to get anywhere, but we made it only a few minutes late. Unfortunately, our local Starbucks doesn’t have the big boxes of coffee, so we had to make do with individual cups. [...]
