For years now, on the first day of the month, I have taken a photograph of the ‘view’
from our kitchen window.
Whilst these
scenes sometimes vary dramatically month to month (the position of the kitchen
actually moved when we renovated the house, so the view changed from being the
vines on our boundary fence, to the backyard, which itself morphed from being a
complete builder’s dumping ground one month, to one that is half landscaped), most
of the time the changes are subtle – a pot will have moved or the something is
flowering. Tiny changes we see, yet don’t really see every day.
I once
read that Laurie Lee had lived so long in his beloved Gloucestershire, that he
was able to tell the date simply by looking at the quality of the light
falling on the countryside around his home. Not sure I’ll be here long enough
for that to happen, or for that matter whether I’d like to be, but do I love seasonal change
even if it is almost indiscernible.
Anyway,
here’s how February 1st, 2015 looked.
