Easter Saturday

It's a funny day, the Saturday between Good Friday and East Sunday. You almost want to give it a title to make it seem more of a part of Easter rather than just a stop-gap. So far, this weekend has been glorious; a real sense of summer! The cat has been loving it and spends pretty much all day wandering between sun spots and shade spots depending on how hot he gets. The best position seems to be half and half on the patio but, in the evening sunshine, a comfy chair is the preferred option! Sooo comfy.

Everything was looking lovely this evening. Our Bluebells are coming out and turn a fabulous shade of purple when the light hits them. There is a mixture of both Spanish and English Bluebells throughout our garden, and the English ones also come in pink and white colours which is rather nice. Almost makes me want to start another Bluebell themed Stitchscape, especially with the blue Forget-Me-Knots mingling in with the general woodland vibe we've got going in this flowerbed.

I was actually out and about in the garden trying to photograph these Stitchscape pebbles which I've just finished off. I'd started them as an example for a pebble class I taught last week but I can't leave hoops unfinished so they've been my bus commute project for the last couple of days and are a great, almost mindless project that you can just play around with, trying out new combinations of colour and stitch. I do love the Ladybugs in a pebble!

I also enjoy using the garden as a prop to place and position my pebbles - as you may be able to tell!

We are very lucky to have a bit of a wildlife haven at the very bottom of our garden. It is an intentionally neglected space on its own level (we have a split level garden going down a rather steep incline) where we have let tall grasses, wild primroses, dead nettles and dandelions grow as a nature reserve. Branches and some of our old fence panels have also been left down there in a corner to provide shelter for anything that wants to live there and we have loads of birds, frogs, toads, mice and goodness knows what else coming in and out of the garden. Last year we had a pair of foxes move in and they had a couple of cubs which we enjoyed watching grow. This year they are back again and have five cubs! They are so sweet to watch as they chase each other around, leaping in and out of bushes and between ours and next door's gardens. Our neighbour leaves out food for them so they are often tearing around on her lawn chasing whoever has a mouthful of food. It can be quite noisy but such a pleasure to watch.
Have a very Happy Easter everybody!