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Feeling Happy
Hearing Beethoven's Pastoral
Nature Study
A wonderful Spring like day today. Outside the cottage the view is panoramic and crystal clear all the way across to the distant Pennine Chain. The snow has almost left the fell tops and now, for the moment, the sun highlights the straw coloured fells. Silently a clouds shadow darkens the scene before me changing the atmosphere in the fields beneath. The sheep graze peacefully. In the distance crows watchfully perch on the drystone boundary walls. They break the silence of the peacefull scene by cawing to each other. Closer still the odd male pheasant can be seen strutting around sporting his arched tail plumage aloft whilst searching the hollows for food. He's brave! He is encroaching upon the entrance to a fox hole. Good fortune is with him though, the fox is hunting in neighbouring fields unaware of an easier meal closer to home.
Such is the way of nature.
Looking down the valley to my right I notice a zephyr riffling a silken sheen on the marsh grasses in the bottom field. And, miniaturised by distance, toy sized yachts are becalmed and mirrored on the lake. All is as it should be and nothing else disturbs the idyllic scene before me.
On days like this, the long awaited Spring feels as though it is just around the corner.
Soon!Soon! Then colours will explode upon the scene in front of me with such vibrant hues unseen since this time last year. I can't wait for the crocuses to explode upon my present view! Like the daffodils they will soon roar into colour releiving my eyes from this present vista of sepia coloured winter-locked fields. It has has been so long now that I ache for the sight of them with their inscapes illuminated just as Zhivago's daffodil trumpets were illuminated by the rising sun in his cottage garden on that warm Spring day.
This day now draws to a shadowy close and now I can look forward to an evening reading by the log fire, musing from time to time, whilst resting my eyes from the writen word, on the beauty of the day I have just witnessed.
A mild dayis forecast again tomorow with heavy frosts expected as the weekend approaches. What scenes will parade into view on tomorrows new boardwalk?
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09/02/05 18:59