Lockdown Garden
I was lucky during UK’s lockdown because I had a garden to occupy me. I spent many days pottering around in it. As the weather was so good, I also spent hours on the garden swing just watching the new wild flower bed. I observed what flowers had emerged, what flowers had died, what insects came and which flowers they preferred. We had garden birds to and fro the bird feeders. We watched buzzards and skeins of geese flying overhead. At the same time, I was preoccupied by the Pandemic. What was this virus, what was happening and where, how to stay safe? Here’s a photograph that symbolises those months in the garden, with the fence the barrier between me and the wider world. The camera says I took the photograph on 1st January 2000, not so.
Lockdown Garden
I was lucky during UK’s lockdown because I had a garden to occupy me. I spent many days pottering around in it. As the weather was so good, I also spent hours on the garden swing just watching the new wild flower bed. I observed what flowers had emerged, what flowers had died, what insects came and which flowers they preferred. We had garden birds to and fro the bird feeders. We watched buzzards and skeins of geese flying overhead. At the same time, I was preoccupied by the Pandemic. What was this virus, what was happening and where, how to stay safe? Here’s a photograph that symbolises those months in the garden, with the fence the barrier between me and the wider world. The camera says I took the photograph on 1st January 2000, not so.