Connections

Our strongest connections to memory are those which are inspired by scent...


Even enabling us to venture as far back as childhood and the scent of early roses in Grandmother's garden...


Strawberry jam cooking in the kitchen...


A beautiful clematis clamoring up the wall of a secret hiding place...


And oh yes Madelaine is trying to get a whiff of that biscuit she buried earlier in the garden...

Hope you're enjoying all the scents of Spring that stir your memory too...

Wistful

Strangely enough the word wistful follows wisteria for definitions in the dictionary...

The beautiful blue flowers dangling delicately across the arbour does fill one full of yearning.

Standing beneath its massive expanse, having grown for more than 50 years in this very spot allows one to focus not only on its grace but to consider all the pleasures it has witnessed and that have come to pass in the garden which lies at the end of its boughs.



Like most of the pleasures in Nature standing alongside the memories of our everyday lives...