Midsummer is such a bittersweet time of the year for me. On the one hand there are the midsummer celebrations with friends and neighbours, there are skies full of bird song and gardens and verges bursting with flowers… The vegetable garden grows fast and it seems that all of nature is rushing to replenish itself.
On the other hand as we pass the longest day it’s reminder that we are back in the time of diminishment, the days will shorten and eventually the sun will loose it’s heat, the flowers will wilt, the new young will reach adult hood and all too soon it will be winter again….
It is the same here at the Trust. There are so many exciting things happening, things to be enthusiastic about, so much important work to deliver. But as with all things, the flow is shadowed by the ebb and we are set to diminish!
