Last summer we found two small wild roses near where we usually go for fishing. Terje helped me move them to a bed in front of the cabin, and this summer it gave us roses. The first thing I saw Thursday afternoon when we arrived were the rose hips. They greeted me - welcome to the cabin, we are sorry the week-end is cold and wet, but forget that, look at our colours, look at our beauty. Nature needs all season, it is for you to hug them all!
I was tempted to pick a few branches but decided against it. Sometimes beauty is best just where it is created. For the birds and the deers to enjoy.
More than 100 years ago, in 1905, Edith Holden writes her "The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady (the title she hersafs gave her book was "Nature Notes 1905). On October 12, 1905 she wrote:
There is some find timber in the park itself, a grove of Birch trees looked lovely - the tiny leaves on the pendant branches looked like showers of gold. The rabbits were scurrying about everywhere; and I saw flocks of Thrushes and finches busy with the Hawthorn berries; I heard a Woodpecker laughing somewhere among the trees. The birds are beginning to sing again now; I heard several Robins on my way. I discovered two Sloe-berries on a bush and brought them home in triumph. The Knapweed and pink Campion are still in bloom, the latter very small and plae and I noticed a great many blossoms of the Procumbent Speedwell in one field.
Edith Holden has a beautiful painting for rose hips, or is it the sloe.berries.....