Following my Christmas post I start the New Year with a decoration that has outlasted the festive season. Last year we did a small gardening task at church. The rose hips we also took for free were bright globes of orange. I had seen hips used like this in a craft fair we visited. I had an almost identical glazed jug rescued from a collection of pots and pans put out for takers back on our old avenue. (Not a custom I have observed on this one.) I added eucalyptus, with holly and ivy to represent autumn and winter. Our Golden Showers rose was still blooming up to Christmas so a bud went in for summer. Lastly I noted that the shrubs and trees on one of our January walks had received their usual 'haircut' from the flailing machine. So I salvaged hazel catkins and willow buds which are just showing a touch of white in readiness for the spring which seems to arrive earlier each year.
My best moment was when our rosebud opened and a token of summer fragrance to come entered the place where we sit.
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