February Sunlight

For the first time this year I ate outside today.  It has been a warm day and the bench by the back door is in a suntrap, so I sat outside.   Everyone looks very grey at this time of year, due to the absence of sunlight; skin is cold and wan and needs warmth and sunshine.  I took my coffee up to the top of the garden and sat by the studio.  There were more birds about as I filled the feeders this morning, lots of blue tits and great tits, sparrows and robins.  I watched a nuthatch picking insects out of the old wall for about five minutes, and even as I write there are four buzzards wheeling high over the woods at the top of the hill.  And it has been a day of washes, to catch the thin warmth and the light breeze.