longer outdoors by katharine eastman

I don't know why I'm thinking of Christmas more this year than ever before - it is and will be the least social and least adventurous Christmas of them all. And anyway the best day has already happened - "the shortest day" - I'm never really low, and from now on until the summer the sun is around for longer. Only those people who've lived outdoors for lots of their lives really know how important this is, I really think it is Nature's most beautiful present.

recorded this morning, photo near Exbury a little while ago