New life from old…

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Sue Vincent

So much has happened over the past few days that I am at a loss where to begin. It started with the drive north through a land sprung to life and colour. A day’s warmth and winter had been banished. Trees, whose skeletal branches had laced the iron clouds, were unfurling their first leaves.

Every garden had daffodils, buds with hints of colour and bushes barely restraining themselves from  bursting into bloom. Wildflowers dotted the hedgerows and grassy banks, revealing themselves in beauty… even the bluebells were beginning to open…. and the fields were starting to turn, dusted with gold.

I stopped, close to my destination, for a walk in the woods to stretch my legs after the long drive. You could feel the awakening of the earth… see the beauty in a system that, from the decay of old summers, grows leaves to shade small and fragile creatures from the sun as it gains strength.

Birds are busily gathering nesting material, flying around with beaks so full they should not be able to fly. Squirrels dart through the undergrowth in search of hidden stores, unafraid of the woman with the camera.

… And by the time I drive home, spring has well and truly sprung. The trees are green, the fields golden, the hedgerows brimming with life… another workshop weekend is over and work has already begun on the next.

 

Time flies, but sometimes, its beauty can only be seen when we take the time to be still.

About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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46 Responses to New life from old…

  1. pensitivity101 says:
    April 25, 2018 at 17:29

    Some lovely photographs Sue.

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  2. Ritu says:
    April 25, 2018 at 18:46

    So true Sue!

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  3. Alethea Kehas says:
    April 25, 2018 at 19:07

    What an exquisite bird! What is it?

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  4. scifihammy says:
    April 25, 2018 at 19:08

    Lovely photos and a great sentiment. You do have to take time out to enjoy nature.

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  6. jenanita01 says:
    April 25, 2018 at 19:14

    I have only recently felt well enough to go outside and see this annual miracle for myself. It is all happening out there!

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  7. Mary Smith says:
    April 25, 2018 at 20:19

    What I find amazing is that even though the rain is lashing down here, it’s cold and not at all spring like, everything in nature is just getting on with it and bursitng into bloom regardless.

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  8. Marilyn Armstrong says:
    April 25, 2018 at 20:43

    I just had to turn up the heat. But this is just going to be a few days. I feel summer lurking in the the growing day lilies.

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  9. Darlene says:
    April 25, 2018 at 22:07

    How great that you were able to stop and enjoy nature to and from your workshop. Nice bookends.

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  10. Jennie says:
    April 26, 2018 at 03:06

    Ahh! Lovely and inspiring.

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  11. Helen Jones says:
    April 26, 2018 at 07:36

    A beautiful post, Sue, and such lovely photographs! There has been an awakening of late, hasn’t there?

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  13. OIKOS™-Redaktion says:
    April 26, 2018 at 13:07

    Wonderful photographs – i love the well fed squirrel, like Ani would do ;-), and a wonderful story too. Michael

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  14. noelleg44 says:
    April 26, 2018 at 22:03

    I forget that spring is ponderously slow in cooler climes. We are leafed out here – although the leaves are yet pale green – the azaleas are blooming and the dogwoods are nearly gone by!

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  15. dgkaye says:
    April 27, 2018 at 00:54

    Thanks for sharing the beautiful coming of spring Sue. 🙂 ❤

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  16. Widdershins says:
    April 27, 2018 at 02:49

    The same happened here. We are five days into a sunny stretch and everything is a meter high and going strong! 😀

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  18. Jack Eason says:
    April 28, 2018 at 07:37

    Reblogged this on Have We Had Help? and commented:
    Spring according to Ani’s human 😉 xc

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  19. bowmanauthor says:
    April 28, 2018 at 12:29

    Absolutely beautiful, Sue.

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  21. Rae Longest says:
    May 7, 2018 at 01:44

    Simply lovely.

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