My week.

Good morning to you all. Summer has arrived hasn't it we are having a proper June dare I say. All week the sun has been up in the sky before 5am beautiful clear blue sky and bird song I could listen to forever. I feel like one lucky girl to wake up to all that on a morning and be able to get out in the lovely countryside that surrounds my home. My poor hubby cannot get out and go for a walk which saddens me but when I'm out I make sure I take plenty of photos for him to look at. This week I have made the most of having the time and friends to go out with for walks, on Tuesday Mary and I went up through Bluebell woods and wandered off on to little tracks we had not being before. The Bluebells are at their best  very late but they made it, the air was full of the scent from them just beautiful, I noticed the other morning when I was out in my garden at 630am that the air was fragranced by them,(the woods is only 5mins walk from us.)

Iv had more flowers coming out in my little garden this week, a beautiful Aquilegia and my first poppy of the summer came out Tuesday morning all delicate and pretty.

                     Just look at that blue sky through the trees, its just wonderful to see.

              I love trees have a real passion for them, this is a beautiful big beach tree that has lots of stories to tell if only he could talk. I often go and sit under it to think things through, I call it my thinking tree I usually come away with the answers I was looking for.

                A beautiful Rowan tree along the side of the lane.

                   Isn't he a beautiful colour.

            This is a little old cabin tucked away behind some farm buildings. I would just love to restore it and spend hours in the sunshine sat outside on my little chair with patchwork in my hands, can you tell I was a fan of Little house on the prairie as a child?

          Marys little dog Spot. This photo below is an old Oak tree that has being clinging to the cliff and has come down this week, someone has cut up and taken away the thick of it and this is what is left, it will be missed by the squirrels as there was always quite a few of them used to gather  there.

      Then on Wednesday morning this beautiful poppy opened up to greet me I had forgot how lovely it is from last year. There are about 10 heads to open up on my plants and each one is a delight to see. I went for a walk with Mary again today along the rail trail which is the old railway track along side the new one, I didn't take my camera because the batteries had finished. We had a lovely walk and chattered all the way putting the world to rights as you do and noticing all the little plants that had come out to see the sun.
     Thursday I went for another walk along the rail trail with another friend Nicky from the village who I don't see a great lot of so we had a lot to natter about and seemed to walk for ever and a day it was lovely. 

          Friday was a quick whip around the house work,  washing hung out and dinner prepared then on with the walking boots and out again with Mary. This time we went up and out of the village way up on to the moor top and over fields down ridges and back up again.  We had such a lovely time just wandering and looking at the beautiful place we live in. We took a friends dog Jessica with us to keep Spot company and they both enjoyed running around like mad hatters and paddling in the streams, bless them. This first 2 photos where taken when we had got up the hill out of the village, my camera is a new one and Iv not got used to it yet, my son says it has a panoramic setting on it but I' m going to have to play with it a bit more before I can take photos like that.

       This is Jessica.

               A lovely Rowan tree.

               Mary was taking photos of the little stream that runs down the ridge.

     We had walked right along the top of the path and down the ridge of the next pic and then back up the other side. Hey! no puffing and panting either, lol.

           

 We stopped and had our picnic, ladies that lunch eh! cant be bad, sat at the side of the river so the dogs could paddle, Jessica just stood there soaking her paws and dipping her head under every now and then.

                Spot just watched every mouth full we took.

            If you look closely at this photo of the rocks right in the middle you can see a face, is it me or does that look just a bit like the green man? do you see it let me know if you do.
        Well Iv enjoyed my last few days out and about in the sun and beautiful country side and am planning on doing more this next week, wont be able to stay out as long as son has had a few days off work this week and kept hubby company for me and he goes back today, but Ill be able to go out for a couple of hours. The garden is my place today just pottering and jobs in the house and a bit of sewing. Hope you all have a lovely weekend. Love Jill xxx

June.

                  Good morning lovely people I do hope you are well.  Well the last day of May went out with a beautiful day and evening we had sunshine all of the day it was a special day me thinks. This morning the 1st of June and it is over cast but I'm not going to be negative we are going to get some sunshine today I just know we are I can feel it in me bones as my old grandma used to say.
    I haven't a lot planned for today just going to see what comes of the day, I do have to nip to the next village to get some vegetables our little shop in the village don't do veg's they say that not enough people buy them then they go off which is sense really but Id love to be able just to nip out of my door to the shop which is only 1minute away, that is if the railway don't see me and open the gates for the train , I'm sure that they have an alarm from my house door to the signal box that says" here she comes quick open the gates", because in the summer when I just need to nip quick to the shop for something which should take me all of 3 minutes ends up taking at least 10.Never mind if the boys are with me they love it seeing the train up close as it crosses the road they are impressive monsters just a little noisy sometimes. Billy eldest grandson will be 8yrs old  this month he is growing up so fast it really doesn't seem 5 Min's since we where waiting for his entrance into the world .He did surprise us by arriving 5 weeks early and having a few problems but he got over them and is a bright healthy happy nearly 8 yr old today. When he was small he had a mass of lovely blond curls but as he has got older his hair has got stronger and the curls have got a bit out of hand and don't curl like they used too. Billy has had his hair quite short for sometime now but has decided he wants it long and curly which is taking sometime to get where he wants it bless him, I think he sees himself as a little surfer dude which would be good as he has had a go at surfing when they where on holiday in Cornwall a couple of yrs ago and mummy said he was good at it. Here are a very small few of my favourite photos of Billy as he has got older I do have hundreds of photos of the boys and I'm sure I will be taking thousands more of them, well that's what grandmas do don't they?

 As you can see he is a happy fun little guy who is going to grow up handsome and break a few hearts with those eyes, but I would say that wouldn't I ?
    Well! that took me right off track of what I was saying and now Iv forgot like ya do! I think we have a bit of blue sky peeping out so that sunshine is going to come out and play. Its just 9am now so I'm going to get me bum off of me seat and leave you all in peace and go get me veg's. Have a lovely day and let me know what you are going to be doing this weekend.
Have fun love Jill xx

Hi folks!!

Hi folks!It is a miserable day here down or up in North Yorkshire,we have drizzle fog and its cold.But on the plus side my little garden is growing like the clappers!!Iv not done anything out there apart from pulling the weeds out and sweeping and its looking lovely.I'm going to just let you see for yourselves the lovely plants and the buds on them without me babbling on.

This little window is looking into the sitting room from the little lean too at the back of the house,it has my witches hat lamp in it,its a happy little window I think.

This little angel lives on the window sill in the lean too.

This is the window from the inside.

And this window is the back window in my kitchen that looks out on to my garden,the front windows look onto the steam trains.I see that Sir Nigel Gresley steam engine is out and about this morning taking the visitors to Whitby and Pickering,not a very good day to see the pretty views for them though,never mind they will be dry.
Well I'm going to go now and will be back in a couple of minutes with the pics I took of my kitchen when I painted it last week.Toddle pip for now xxx