Morning Tea

As an apple, it exceeded every cliched expectation, to her great delight.

Compost

Another miracle of nature: that kitchen dregs can be transformed, purely through proximity to garden garbage and a little Blood & Bone, into rich dark soil fit for fertilizing the next batch of ... kitchen dregs!

A Peaceful Nap

Cool linen encased her as, focussing on her breathing, she slipped into unconsciousness.

Mindful Eating

One miracle of physiology is that even plain food, chewed slowly and thoroughly, will become a flavoursome treat.

Workout

The pleasure of muscles working smoothly, heart rate increasing, pores opening and the bare suggestion of an endorphin rush: this is good.

Soliloquy

There are few plants I don't like, but rose bushes are vindictive, spiteful beings which will rip your flesh as soon as look at you, and then sit there, seductively waving their serrated leaves and glorying in their self-appointed queendom of the flowering world; bah - begone!

It's going to be a hot one

Watering in the cool freshness after dawn, tiny desiccated leaf-boats nudged her toes.