Fairy Lights

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Winter sunlight turns bare branches, that drip with rain, into fascinating fairy lights.

www.bealtainecottage.com 013Silver prisms of fantasy, dangling precariously from thin Birch trees.

www.bealtainecottage.com 012The days of light and dark are confused with bright full moons, illuminating the bare landscape…

www.bealtainecottage.com 015This is a delightful time of year, as the sun makes its steady progress downwards, ever down…

www.bealtainecottage.com 022Light is delicate and unpredictable, sometimes overwhelming in its glow, at others, just a whisper of the day.

www.bealtainecottage.com 011Entire worlds are captured in water droplets.

Fitting too, as water and sun give life.

www.bealtainecottage.com 026The coppicing continues and long branches are hauled up from the gardens to the dry environment of the veranda.

This is next year’s fuel for the stove.

www.bealtainecottage.com 036Seeds continue to be sorted and packaged.

www.bealtainecottage.com 037These are special little packs requested for Yuletide gifts.

www.bealtainecottage.com 038Poppies are easy to sow…simply sprinkle!

www.bealtainecottage.com 029Most of the second run of Christmas booklets have been posted… all over the world! http://bealtainecottage.com/christmas-book/

The few remaining will not sit here for long.

www.bealtainecottage.com 020It’s strange sorting seeds at this time of year, as it seems that summer was only yesterday…gosh but the time passes quickly!

7 comments

  1. A summer to a 5 year old is a twentieth of a lifetime. Time gets shorter as age changes the percentages. An entire year for me is now less than a 60th. Percentage-wise the perceptual reality kind of matches: a year for me equates to a month for someone in kindergarten.

  2. Hi Colette,

    I hope you are doing well. I am much better and feeling more like myself. It has been a very interesting journey. Anyway, Lol and I would like a copy of your book and a packet of the poppy seeds. Can you let us know how much and I will pop a cheque in the post as I have something for you anyway and your wine making book.

    Many thanks

    Best wishes

    Terri

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    • I was thinking of you today and have been every day, sending you good wishes…so glad to hear you’ve come through! I am popping the book and seeds into the post and shall send to the shop!
      Blessings X
      Colette

  3. Ooh…I love those Fairy Lights! How beautiful! I received my Christmas Book yesterday. What a sweet little book. I have only skimmed it briefly..it deserves a sit down and a nice cup of tea….I am looking forward to it.

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