Forget past mistakes. Forget failures.
Forget everything except what you’re
going to do now and do it.

~ Will Durant ~
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I love starting vegetables for my summer garden from those cute seed packets. Every spring, I purchase envelopes with pretty pictures, consult the Farmer’s Almanac for the last expected hard frost, calculate germination times, and coordinated planting dates with my schedule. This year, I am reworking my landscaping, so, I opted to limit my spring plantings to tomatoes and basil. I have major changes planned in the yard, and I needed to concede to a lack of time and space for a more ambitious undertaking.

The Farmer’s Almanac called for sowing both tomato and basil seeds for indoor germination anytime between March 24th and April 7th in my zone. True to my nature, I pushed the window and delayed setting up my table until the last possible day. Tomatoes typically germinate in 5 to 10 days and basil in 5 to 7 days. But I’m not patient. As soon as…

After self-indulgently breaking the two hundred mile journey to Sheffield with a walk over the hills on Thursday, followed by another long drive to Ilkley to walk over more hills, climbing rocks and waterfalls on Friday, the sensible thing, we thought, would be to rest a bit on Saturday. So what did we do? Climb hills.

It was an accident, sort of. We’d only been going to have a better look at a rock formation in Cressbrook Dale and maybe a better photograph for Doomsday the new book in progress … but we got a little carried away and the brief excursion took most of the day. Well, to be fair, with that landscape, who could help it?

It was a beautiful day, with the sun streaming into the sheltered valley. The dale is teeming with early purple orchids, wild violets, cowslips, speedwell, patches of bluebells and hawthorn blossom. On…

“Sometimes you’ve got to remember to say it, not just think it.”

Ritu 2021

For Linda’s #1LinerWeds Challenge.

You should examine yourself daily.
If you find faults, you should correct them.
When you find none, you should try even harder.

~ Xi Zhi ~
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The future’s bright

This has not been a great day. Lots of computer issues. As in I had to restore the computer and it didn’t work, so I had to unrestore the restoration and the problem I was trying to fixed isn’t fixed. Basically, it makes it impossible to process any of my photographs, which as you might guess, is making me unhappy. Really seriously unhappy. I processed these before I followed those dubious instructions and watched my whole system crash. I’ll get it sorted out, but in the meantime, I’m not a happy camper.

Bright sketch – Easter Lily

Another bright sketch