Gathered together

 We've had a holiday

which took in

a smiling lamb,

 English bluebells,

Wood anemones,

 unfurling hazel leaves,

 goldfish in a moat,

the hall window at Lamb's House,

home to Henry James and E.F. Benson,

graffiti in the mill at Bateman's,

Rudyard Kipling's home,

Japonica on a quiet afternoon at Sissinghurst,

opalescent magnolia in the White Garden,

(the better for not being seen in strong sunshine),

swans in reeds,

swans in fields,

an urn to remember, planted with clematis,

and Great Dixter

with a surprising sight, 

not photographed out of compassion;

a pot of well past it hyacinths in its front of porch display.

Strangely comforting to remember

when one returns to ones less than perfect abode.