And now its nearly Christmas we are well into our winter, it’s been snowing now for two days non stop and the fields and gardens have a kind of neat look about them as the snow covered lawns look as smooth as new mowed. 

I put a match to the log fire in my library the snow deep outside my window, taking a book from the shelf, I settle down to an evening with Charles Dickens “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom” I read, I really wasn’t in the mood for this story, I leaned over to take a sip of my hot cocoa,  leaning back into my rocker my mind drifted back to the spring of this past year and recalled a lazy day I spent in the countryside, I walked through a cornfield and as I walked, the dust from the corn Drifted up reflecting in the sunshine, the sound of the rustle of the corn as I brush Pass its storks flick back to create more dust.

I disturbed a butterfly, a beautiful long tailed blue, she flutters between the ears of corn looking for a new perch, settling once again, her wings opening and closing as if she is making herself ready to take off at a moments notice.

I stopped and laid myself down to take in the beauty and the sights and sounds, of that English country field, and as I lay on my back sucking from a cornstalk I could hear the sound of the skylark singing his heart out to let all around know, that this was his territory.

I turned and leaned on my side and there in the undergrowth a little field mouse poking his nose in the air twitched his whiskers at me he scurried away quickly as suddenly, there hovering above me a kestrel waiting for his pray.

This to me was heaven I was at peace with the world, but all too soon I had to make my way home, leaving a memory etched into me of that golden field interspersed with the red of poppies and of course the beautiful blue cornflowers, now I know what Robert Browning meant when he wrote Oh to be in England now that spring is here.

The doorbell rang and startled me back into my library the sound of carol singers reminded me of the time I was in now and I picked up my book again and began to read.