(Cancer) Garden journey day by day

  • Christmas colours: red

    Daily garden photos over recent December weeks have caught festive Christmas colours, which just brighten the mood.  What might look like a dull garden outlook on a grey day can still produce delights when you look more closely. First it was the...
  • Bark, but not woof!

    A few weeks since my last post: blame Christmas madness, but still time to step into the garden each day to find a focus. It is a calming process. Earlier in my chemo cycles, the capecitabine pills decided to go for my feet, causing them to beco...
  • Winter yellows - Bee surprised

    The winter garden is so different from the summer garden, with autumn passing by on the way. My chemo began in summer's heat and drought conditions, parched lawn and plants struggling, an uncertain time ahead, and now it's the beautiful monochrome of...
  • Blue sky inspiration

    Look up, what is the sky today telling you? It's bright, it's blue (the mood-lifting one, not "the blues"), it's brilliant and inspirational. First, a vapour trail created what I imagined as an ethereal centipede, it's little legs carrying it upward...
  • Morning glories

    The cancer journey was always going to track the changing seasons; now it is really showing, always in the most beautiful and surprising way. Waking up each morning, after I've wriggled fingers and toes and stretched the limbs, it's time to draw the ...