Beauty all around

The filling is cooling for the Danish pie i.e. one with leftover gammon in it, before I top it with some puff pastry ready for cooking this evening.

We went out for a bit yesterday afternoon. When we came in, about 4ish, and the day was starting to darken I was struck by a dazzling chain of crystals, a spider’s web with glistening water droplets on it, which had been spun on the kitchen window.

Yesterday had turned out to be a day of much beauty. We’d been over to the golf club. We were late & our usual friends had already left by the time we arrived. However, it was well worth the trip for the stunning view across the Bay. It was an incredibly quiet afternoon after a very wet morning. The sky & water was a brilliant ice blue, the fells more lavender as the receded in the distance. The clouds in the sky were infused with pinky purple. Altogether something absolutely fabulous.

I can’t help thinking we’re lucky to live in such a wonderful place. Going along the prom is always a surprise, always changing, reflecting a multitude of moods but always magnificent. Sometimes the water is cold, grey & rough, other days ice blue & still. The fells come into, & disappear from, view. Someimes they positively seem to float above bands of mistiness as though they were part of a Chinese or Japanese painting. Sometimes the Bay seems almost all sandbanks, other times it is overflowing with water.

Aye, lucky indeed.