My wife is the keen gardener, and I usually refer to myself as the “destructive gardener”, because my main garden activities are mowing the lawn, picking apples, pruning our trees and shrubs, and then shredding the branches to make mulch for the rest of the garden.
Even though I’m staying at home, for work and leisure, I still feel I’m lucky to have a garden to view and walk around. In fact I make use of my small garden pond to help relax in between working by standing quietly for a few minutes each day and looking for wildlife, like frogs, newts and insects, that live there. My colleagues call it “pond time”!
Many parts of the world have already come to end of their own “cherry blossom time”, but in the UK it has only just started, so I took a few photos this week for everyone to enjoy it with me. If you wish you can also imagine me standing next to our small pond, which can be seen on the right-hand side of the bend in the path.
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The connection between nature and good mental health is well documented, so I have included a link to a mental health charity web site where its effects are discussed in more detail.
Please remember to pause every day and relax with nature, even if it is only to open a books of nature photos. You’ll be surprised how much better you’ll feel!
