Narcissus ‘Tête à tête’ and muscari in the evening sun
It’s me. I am the sun catcher. I catch the sun. The minute the clouds part and those yearned for, warming rays illuminate the scene and banish the gloom with the sun’s presence, I’m there. Catching it.
It might be with a click of the camera’s shutter, a scribble in a notebook app, or the blink of an eye that signals neurons to knit but, in such a moment, the sun can consider itself caught. And this is how I intend to spend the next few weeks until something resembling the spring we all carry about inside us arrives. Making memories from moments.
Because memories are tricky and quite unreliable, but I’m planning on using this to my advantage. By all that’s empirical and right, I should look back on this winterspring as the sodden, wet and windy affair it’s undoubtedly been, complete with parade of named storms so numerous as to give the cast of a Broadway musical a run for its money. But I figure that if I can just pick the best, sunniest moments, climb inside them for a bit and bathe in their fleeting, golden calm, then I can construct a memory of March that’s altogether brighter, altogether more positive and altogether more adept at countering the endless barrage of glum coming at us all just now, mostly related to a collective feeling of empty supermarket-shelf despondency that we as a nation failed throughout our history to embrace the bidet – laughed at our neighbours for doing just that – and, if we made a mistake there, what else might we have got wrong?
So that’s what I’m doing. Catching the sun. Who’s with me?
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
