How can it be already the 31st May? A month – as a friend has written –

… full of sunrise scents

I love the scented, sunshiny days that make home and neighbourhood look and feel like this. This year’s wildflowers are beginning to raise their heads among the garden shrubs and apple trees. The lawn gleams a lush, thick green, enhanced in the early mornings by dewdrops beneath grateful, grounded bare feet. I’ve loved having my brother to stay for a few happy days this past weekend. We’ve talked, and laughed, and tootled around Lakeland, enjoying quiet hours, too, at close of day. And now we move onwards to the joys of June. Perhaps I’ll write more? More photos, perhaps? Certainly some cycling, friends, family, and Edinburgh. And so – gratitude …