The sun is in and out on a bright and slightly breezy day.
I’m fortunate to have a view that looks down from the heights of the Malvern hills across the wide Severn valley all the way to the Cotswolds ridge, and today I’m fascinated by the number of sunlit areas shining like golden dishes interspersed with darkened cloud covered spaces. they shift and move at a serene pace and my eye is drawn to the sun shining off farmhouse windows, church spires, cornfields, woods and copses.
I bought an old pair of binoculars from a charity shop the other day and I’m spending time spotting small hamlets and country lanes with distant cars and tractors winding their occasional way through some beautiful countryside. Comparing my vista ‘live’ with ‘google earth’ enables me to plot the location of these lovely little spots and then drive around them to see them in all their glory. I can stop and look back towards my house from several miles away and if I phone my granddaughter she will flash a mirror from the balcony so that I can pinpoint it’s location.
On a day like today the English countryside is a glorious place to be.