After lunch, tempted into the garden by the sunshine, still keeping ice
in containers like this pot saucer, fingers tingling, I took a brief walk around with my camera.
Many of the camellias were either in bloom or bud,
while the Japanese anemones bore seed pods apparently investigated by spiders.
Backlit cordyline Australis bore drips of precipitation.
The Gazebo bore the clematis Cirrhosa “Freckles”.
The dead stumps along the Back Drive and sculpture Florence were picked up in sidelight.
Later, I dozed through the first two episodes of Lucy Worsley’s Russian Romanovs.
This evening we all dined on tempura, and hot and spicy, prawns; tempura vegetables and spring rolls on Jackie’s colourful vegetable rice, with which I drank more of the shiraz and the Culinary Queen drank Mezquiriz Rosado 2023