25 July 2024

I can't say that I like the smell of geraniums, they are much too pungent and spicy for me, but I do love their colours. On the patio outside our living room window we have some pots of vibrant scarlet ones and further down the garden, around the bird bath, there are deep, vibrant pink ones, mixed with white and clear rose-pink ones.
At this time of year they provide most of the colour in the garden as much of our colour comes earlier in the year in a succession of spring-flowering shrubs.
During the years I spent in London one of the things I really missed was seeing colours because the window of my hostel room looked out only to a deep 'well' of other such rooms. Even the walk to the 'Swedish Institute' where I did my physio training was through the very urban streets of Paddington.
We need colour to live and grow, whether that is the visual colours of the spectrum or the psychological colour of meeting other people, hearing about and/or doing interesting things, or hearing, touching, smelling or seeing the beauty around us; 'colour' in this sense means stimulation of our senses and perhaps of our spirituality in one way or another.
We have a God-given world of enormous variety and vibrant beauty of sight, sound, taste and smell - a world of stimulation: let us thank God for all he has given us, including the senses to enjoy it, and do our best to care for it in his name.

With love
Jacquie xx