Dear apple trees: I am sorry they didn’t love you like I loved you. Why someone would cut down 100 year old heritage apple trees to put in a garage…I don’t know. Thank-you for the shade. Thank-you for the yummy apple pies, apple jam, apple crumble…I am sorry I couldn’t be there for you in the end. In my mind, you are both still alive, green and mossy. Birds take shelter in your branches and rain drips from your leaves on to the garden below.

Dear apple trees: I am sorry they didn’t love you like I loved you. Why someone would cut down 100 year old heritage apple trees to put in a garage…I don’t know. Thank-you for the shade. Thank-you for the yummy apple pies, apple jam, apple crumble…I am sorry I couldn’t be there for you in the end. In my mind, you are both still alive, green and mossy. Birds take shelter in your branches and rain drips from your leaves on to the garden below.

Yin and Yang and Hens and Chicks.

Yin and Yang and Hens and Chicks.

Butterfly on daisy.

Butterfly on daisy.

The sleeping cat waits.

The sleeping cat waits.

Long green grass.

Long green grass.

A secret place.

A secret place.

White and pink Dianthus with raindrops.

White and pink Dianthus with raindrops.

Purple daisy. Maybe pink?

Purple daisy. Maybe pink?

Grandma’s pink dianthus with rain drops.

Grandma’s pink dianthus with rain drops.

Grandma’s pink geranium.

Grandma’s pink geranium.