An English Sunday

[shewhomust]

On Sunday morning I chopped the oranges for marmalade while listening to Martin Carthy's Desert Island Discs; after lunch we went for a short walk in the Botanic Gardens. The afternoon was pale and bleak, and we didn't stay very long. Back home I finished making the marmalade - it's very ginger.

I took the first photos of the year at the gardens. Once the cut surface of this tree stump was clean enough that someone chose it to explain the tree's growth rings. Now the green plaques with their notable dates are almost hidden under the fungus: it's like an ornamental fountain, a series of sculpted scallop shells down which the autumn leaves cascade.

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

What a lovely Sunday! Somehow Martin goes well with marmalade.

Nine

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Somehow Martin goes well with marmalade.

So English, but with plenty of ginger...

I loved your account of the programme.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

How very beautifully made they are! Quite paper nautically, I find.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

From above they are lovely colours, too, the ivory you can see here, a deep seaweed green and the copper leaves.