Megumi

23/04/2023

Wishing you a • s l o w • Sunday.

20/04/2023

Surrounded by scents and scenery... 🍃🍃🍃

15/04/2023

"On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds." - Mark Tobey

03/04/2023

O P E N yourself up to new possibilities...

🪻🪻🪻

30/03/2023

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘The Brook’.

'I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.

Till last by Philip’s farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever…'

25/03/2023

Allow yourself to get slowly into the swing of things...

23/03/2023

M E G U M I P E T S | Katja

Meet the newest addition to our Megumi family: Katja!

Original citizen of Clarens, this baby was destined to come home with us -

She was adopted with love at first sight!

This one gets away with everything 👀 - the cutest long-leg puppy who is growing up SO fast!

20/03/2023

Turn your face to the heat of the sun...

18/03/2023

16/03/2023

Cocoon...

15/03/2023

"A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins."

- Laurie Colwin

10/03/2023

"The breezes taste
Of apple peel.
The air is full
Of smells to feel-
Ripe fruit, old footballs,
Burning brush,
New books, erasers,
Chalk, and such.
The bee, his hive,
Well-honeyed hum,
And Mother cuts
Chrysanthemums.
Like plates washed clean
With suds, the days
Are polished with
A morning haze."

- John Updike

06/03/2023

"The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo." - Jane Grigson

04/03/2023

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02/03/2023

Textures and colours are all around us

28/02/2023

"Nature always wears the colours of the spirit." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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24/02/2023

"...I'm busy growing things and
connecting with the natural world.
I'm busy questioning my answers.
I'm busy being present in my life."

— Brooke Hampton, Barefoot Five

22/02/2023

'Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, But they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.'

― Suzy Kassem, ‘ Rise Up And Salute The Sun’

20/02/2023

"This is the garden: colours come and go,
frail azures fluttering from night’s outer wing
strong silent greens silently lingering,
absolute lights like baths of golden snow.
This is the garden: pursed lips do blow
upon cool flutes within wide glooms,and sing
(of harps celestial to the quivering string)
invisible faces hauntingly and slow.

This is the garden. Time shall surely reap
and on Death’s blade lie many a flower curled,
in other lands where other songs be sung;
yet stand They here enraptured,as among
the slow deep trees perpetual of sleep
some silver-fingered fountain steals the world."

- E. E. Cummings

16/02/2023

M E G U M I P E T S | Santa

Found on the doorstep one Christmas Eve by the grand children of the previous owner, this girl was named 'Santa' to commemorate the occasion.

We inherited her when we bought this beautiful property and have been privileged in getting to know her sweet soul.

She may be the 'Old Lady' of Megumi, but her adventurous spirit certainly remains youthful:

She loves riding along to town at every chance she gets!

14/02/2023

Happy Valentine's Day!

"We are put on Earth for a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love." - William Blake

11/02/2023

"In Africa the lissome eucalyptus leaves
Sharply ovoid, a washed celadon,
Turn their silvery backs, yield, bend with
The promise of on-coming rain."

- K Hanson

09/02/2023

e d g e :

Still early morning, the wind's edge
Catches in veins the edges that stick in them;
Thorny friends, burrs of confusion,
Pressures of office that take a rhomboid wrench
Through every breath. I would, I say
To the genie that lives in the long lamp of hope,
Have them all rounded, is that not possible?

All edges rounded till they will bubble
Easily together? Slowly the sun,
Rising up over the roofs and trees,
Brings another way beyond my wish.
The edges meet and fit, the angles turn
To complement, merge and sparkle, vein to vein,
As the sharp morning seeks delineation."

- j o s e p h i n e m i l e s

06/02/2023

"Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand." - Katherine Mansfield

02/02/2023

'How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside—

Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!'

- The Swing, Robert Louis Stevenson

31/01/2023

'artichoke
purple glory globe
hidden bee
seeks pollen
explorers on our journey
seeking life's nectar'

- Jone Rush MacCulloch

26/01/2023

"I dreamed of moving among the Elysian Fields..."

Beautiful summer days at Megumi - walking on Sunshine!

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20/11/2022

"Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness;
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find,
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that’s made
To a green thought in a green shade …"

- Andrew Marvell, ‘The Garden’.