Three Pictures

Lying on the bed yesterday morning - exhausted from the tremendous effort of having a shower and getting dressed - I was looking at 3 of the paintings we have in the bedroom.  They are all of woods - seen from an angle that cuts the tops off the trees.   One is by Susan Alison, and it is of the edges of a wood - there is a bit of fence - its in sepia tones, with lots of pale sky showing through the trees.  It is a welcome home present from Penny and George - welcome home from our 25 years of expatting.   The second is of much denser woodland - tree trunks seen through tree trunks.  It is by my dear Aged Father and is of Poland's Bialowieza Forest - the ancient woodland which straddles the border between Poland and Belarus.  He was a child of those fields and forests.  The third one is by Ken - Ken Reah, my brother in law - and is of Endcliffe Vale Park - the strip of water and woodland that runs almost from the city centre to the moors at Ringinglow, It is a place with layer upon layer of memories for me, as perhaps the Bialowieza Forest was for my father.

And of course all three pictures make me think of the Paradise earth to come - and how unimaginably lovely it is going to be.

Captain B has bought home some video of adders - a fighting and a courting.   They move like water.

He is having a wonderful time now the weather is so good - able to spend all day outside.

Audrey and I had a morning on the doors.  I was able to deliver all my magazines for April - together with the Memorial invitations.  We  did a return visit each, and we went to the Bank and Audrey did her shopping.

We are at the Kingdom Hall for an hour tonight to do our Watchtower Bible study as there will be no meeting on Sunday morning because it is the day of The Memorial.