We had some glorious weather these past few days - such a contrast compared to the cold spell we'd suffered since February. Still I suppose all good things have to end or at least pause, otherwise we wouldn't be so in awe of it.

I don't know if having the warm February caused the plants in my garden to really flourish, but this year has seen the blossom and wild flowers go into overdrive. I've never seen this apple blossom outside my lounge look so beautiful and I've been taking loads and loads of picture of it - yes really !!!!!

Now the cherry blossom has finished, the lilacs are making up for it, as is the laburnum. I thought I'd take a sort of panorama of the view I have from my lounge....



It's a bit squashed, but the beauty is there - apart from a large pittisporum bush which needs to be trimmed. It's an evergreen so it doesn't seem to have any flowers or anything beautiful apart from the tiny curly leaves.







I am just in awe of this beauty - wish it had a strong scent but it doesn't - not even in the evenings. So I'll just have to make do with the view instead. The apples on this tree have so far been crab apples - so not good eaters, but hopefully now the tree has matured, it just might give me apples that I can either cook or eat.





Now I have the yellow rain of the laburnum coming out - I could get drunk on having this amount of beauty surrounding me. It's such a pleasure just looking out the window.


Unfortunately the weathermen say that we can expect rain and cooler temperatures for the next week - this week we had 23C and now it's going to drop to 13C!! It's not fair, I was really getting used to not having to wear jumpers and thermal vests!!

I hope you all had a lovely Easter, but there have been some awful tragedies in this world. We must all try and rise above that and just look after ourselves and our friends and neighbours.