Late Spring Style. . .

It's the final day of May 2023, and we're fully into summer mode here at Totleigh-in-the-Wold. At least for today.

Now, not everyone is into leather boat shoes, no socks, or even short pants on grown men I acknowledge. But since the weather forecast is for near 90 F. by afternoon in our neck of the woods, it's how we typically roll here in the Grand Duchy during the warmer part of the year.

Before anyone points out the apparent splash of talcum powder, flour, or cocaine across my shirt in the upper photograph, it was actually very bright, direct early morning sunshine creeping through/around the window blinds where I sat enjoying coffee and toast with strawberry jam. . . sans wife and teen-aged child. The hour alone with my thoughts was, in a word, heavenly.

Time now to take care of some light housework and look more closely into beginning some work in the backyard adding a border to the periphery along one of the beds back there. Two pallets of brown mulch and another of edging stones arrived shortly after my return from town this morning. These is also a screen door to repair, and the first floor to vacuum plus the dishwasher to unload.

Cinderella had nothing on me!

-- Heinz-Ulrich

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