Mia and Tarka have also spent much of this rainy week listening, with rapt attention, to The Famous Five audio stories. 
Mia is really beginning to recognise numbers and letters this month, she coloured in a 'colour by numbers picture' perfectly which took me by surpise.

Every walk in the woods reveals yet more unusual fungi.

 Apricot Fungus - above

Shaggy Ink Cap

Below - Common Ink Cap

 Tarka with a painted cat face.

I am still reminding myself that here and now is where life is, reminding myself to breathe and find joy in the present moment.  Last night I read this beautiful passage in Byron Katie's book A Thousand Names for Joy:

The apparent craziness of the world, like everything else is gift that we can use to set our minds free .Until you can love what is...you're separate from the world...You may find that you don't need to navigate a future at all-that what appears now is all you've got and even this is always immediately gone...That state of constant change is creation without limits, efficient free, and beautiful beyond description.
Byron Katie