Tuesday 8 February 2011

A Search for Signs of Spring


I love self-employment, if only for the fact that I dictate the hours of my day. To be honest, most of my days are spent working pretty frantically for a deadline. But since I'm 50% Tech Editor and 50% Designer, when I have the luxury, I like to split my day in half, and spend the time of transition doing something I enjoy.

Today was a walk, in search of design inspiration and signs of Spring. And by Spring I really mean lambs. Except for the fact that it's still cold enough to flare up my exercise allergy (I wish I weren't serious about that), the blue skies made up for it.

So I went on a walk, only to find a lack of sheep. In Wales.

Nothing.
Not even in our back yard.


In short, it was shocking. And the taunting evidence of this mythic sheep was not helping.



 
Liars!

I stumbled upon other signs of Spring along the way. Though not nearly as cute as lambs (because let's face it, nothing is), they were promising:

 
The snow drops were snow dropping



The blue tits were tittering

There was even a cat, which to poor, pet-starved person such as myself, is a big deal.

This was as close as I could get to it.

Finally, at the end of an arduous journey uphill, past empty field after empty field and with itchy, itchy legs (allergies!), I found my reward.

Lambs.

LAMBS.




 Task completed. Now it's time to get back to work.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love this! So cute. I really want to cuddle some lambs now.

Zita said...

Lambs! That's it, must visit countryside STAT!