(Cancer) Garden journey day by day

  • 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 ...
  • Remembrance and a rose

    The last few days have focused on remembrance. Always poignant. I decided to use the autumn lawn to place my token of remembrance. Somehow it felt very natural and right. The garden is so closely linked to health, our psychology and emotions. I also ...
  • Counting, counting

    When I started this blog, the theme has been counting: counting down the days and chemo cycles, all mirrored by what is going on in the garden. It's been a while since I last posted, as this time, I've been captivated by the falling leaves, w...
  • The colour red

    The colour red: capecitabine had a sting in the tail for me this cycle; all had been reasonably OK until the last few days of the tablet fortnight. That nasty palmar-plantar side-effect seems to get me every time: sure enough, the colour red began to...