My Haven of Peace

What’s your haven of peace? … asks Denzil, for this week’s Nature Photo Challenge. I don’t have to stop and think. I look out of the kitchen window, and there it is. The walled garden. It’s not ours – it belongs to our landlords. But they are eager to share it, and as they have more garden here, this space is often ours, and ours alone.

It’s a quiet place. Unless you count the birds: trilling, warbling, cooing, admonishing, singing. From our point of view, they’re often at their most tunefully loquacious in the early evening, when we’ll just go out there with a glass of something and enjoy their concert ahead of an evening meal.

That garden seat in the header photo is the place where I’ll go for a while in the afternoon, perhaps with a good book. It’s an ideal vantage point for butterfly-watching too.

Sometimes we feel it’s only right that we should do our bit towards maintaining this special space, so we wander about doing some weeding (leaving the nettles well alone for those butterflies).

We enjoy watching the seasons pass here too: from the first snowdrops and hellebores of winter, to the springtime tulips and daffodils, through to the abundance of summer and the rich russet and burnished tones of autumn.

Our special place: our haven of peace.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

72 thoughts on “My Haven of Peace”

  5. So beautiful. We also have a nice garden but this reminds me of our time in England, and that is always a great thing.

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      3. I have chairs, but maybe now that I seem to have a cottage garden a Lutyens bench would work. Or perhaps one of those nice curved metal ones 🤔

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  10. The world would be a better place if more people were able to have such a marvelous spot Margaret. I can imagine the feelings of peace while enjoying the birds and the flowers. Lucky indeed! Good on you for truly appreciating it.

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  14. Oh that is most definitely my kind of place Margaret, and the “cottage garden” style of borders suits it so well. You are indeed blessed to have such a place literally on your doorstep.

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  15. What a wonderful garden and a perfectly situated garden bench. I sometimes wished I had a garden, but I wouldn’t be any good maintaining it and keeping it nice.

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