could it be?

No need to put the kitchen light on in the morning, awake before the alarm, slippers and gown not needed, cup of tea in the garden (in nightie).  It must be Spring!!

You were waking

Day was breaking

A panoply of song

And summer comes to.....

What is the good of your stars and trees, 

your sunrise and the wind, 

if they do not enter into our daily lives? 

E. M. Forster 

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. 

Audrey Hepburn 

A bit harsh maybe?  I would add "when there is no one to make a cup of tea for you" to the quote.  You slipped up there Audrey!

Echium Candicans or "Pride of Madeira".  

I know it is an alien and it should not really be in my garden (sorry Ginny and Annie) and every winter when it looks at it's bare and spiky worst, I think I should just close my eyes and pull it out.  But then I hibernate for a bit and when I venture out to cut and prune there I find this beautiful mass of blue/violet blooms.  It also turns Matthew's bedroom window into the perfect picture frame for a natural and alive print from nature.  In his room there is a continual droning at the moment and you can almost feel the vibrations coming from the bees.

"It may seem odd that straight exposure to pollen often triggers allergies but that exposure to pollen in the honey usually has the opposite effect...

In honey the allergens are delivered in small, manageable doses and 

the effect over time is very much like that from undergoing a whole series 

of allergy immunology injections." 

~Thomas Leo Ogren, "Allergy-Free Gardening"

“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. 

There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.”

 Albert Schweitzer 

I love the new green plane tree leaves which soon will provide a canopy of shade for long days and lazy lunches.

Maybe jumping the gun but this is my favourite Spring / Summer song

Here's a hymn to welcome in the day

Heralding a summer's early sway

And all the bulbs all comin' in

To begin

The thrushes' bleeding battle with the wrens

Disrupts my reverie again

Pegging clothing on the line

Training jasmine how to vine 

Up the arbor to your door

And more

Standing on the landing with the war

You shouldered all the night before

But once upon it

The yellow bonnets

Garland all the lawn

You were waking

Day was breaking

A panoply of song

And summer comes to Springville Hill

A barony of ivy in the trees

Expanding out its empire by degrees

And all the branches burst abloom

In the boom

Heaven sent this cardinal maroon

To decorate our living room

But once upon it

The yellow bonnets

Garland all the lawn

You were waking

Day was breaking

A panoply of song

And summer comes to Springville Hill

And years from now when this old light

Isn't ambling anymore

Will I bring myself to write

"I give my best to Springville Hill"

But once upon it

The yellow bonnets

Garland all the lawn

You were waking

Day was breaking

A panoply of song

And summer comes to Springville Hill

And summer comes to Springville Hill