Spring time

I love Spring! Being an ex Queenslander now living in New Zealand, I am always delighted to have the 4 seasons of a temperate zone. My tulips are coming on and the Main Street in town is glowing with violas. Magnolias are gorgeous and daffodils galore. The cherry blossom trees are budding up. There is the glorious and magical river running down to the sea, with beaches not of golden sand but of black which has sparkly bits to catch the sun... The mountains still are snow capped with gleaming mantles in the sunlight, and the water courses have water ...and always running water, clear over the pebbles. Green, green everywhere and the ridiculous newborn lambs playing as only lambs can!

Do you get the idea that I love Spring! I am feeling very virtuous as I have started spring cleaning with the most hated job.....the oven! All my wooden furniture has been oiled and the honey tones, magnify the beautiful wooden floors. I am polishing the brass collection, and later will walk to my local library to enjoy a cappuccino with the knitting and crocheting group which makes blankets for Plunket, which is the maternal and child clinic over here.

Next week I will be away in retreat from the world, attending a spiritual thingy. I will not TALK for 5 days! It is a bit hard for the first couple of hours but by the end, the noise is pretty stunning when allowed to again. It is not a holiday, as we are up at about 0630 hrs (which I find tough) and it is full on until about 2100 hrs. The place where this will be, will be in the country, so I should enjoy the opportunity to tramp about.