~ Hello February ~

1. Untitled, 2. Lending Pearls To Swine, 3. a good place to sit, 4. Untitled

It's so much colder here today; the radiators are struggling to warm the flat and I'm wishing i had a working fireplace so i could light a fire. The summer feels so far away but i have it on good authority that this year we will actually have a summer, unlike the last two years. So because the days are so grey at the moment I'm drawn to these soft and airy images, where the light seems to cushion the subject with a gentle embrace. To look at photographs of summer would be a tease too far, for now anyway.

I thought I'd share my desktop image* for February - this phrase has been floating in and out of my head for weeks: You are so loved. Whatever's happening in your life, wherever you are, however you feel, you are so loved. Maybe you could stop for a moment, breathe in slowly and as you exhale hear them saying it: you are so loved.

This is the image I want to look at every day this month. It really is going to be okay.

* The images are for your personal use only and I retain the copyright, etc etc :)

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Comments

[kristen]

i just knew no. 3 was central park - i've spent many an hour reading on those benches.

[ceanandjen]

Here too. We have had freezing fog for the last few days and it is incredibly grey and quite cold outside. While the low fog has a lovely quality to it, it also feels as though it permeates in the worst possible (and cold) way. These images are beautiful...as is the new screen saver (thank you).I wrote a piece late into the night last night that really had me reeling by the end of it, so this message is a welcomed one this morning. xoxoxo

[Leslie]

what a lovely way to start this new month :) i send you some of our crisp sunshine on the sunday...

[sas]

I just walked from the tube with snow flurries falling around me. Now I have hot tea and a cashmere blanket and your lovely images to warm me up :)

[Elizabeth]

What beauty leading into February, a month so deeply weighted in winter. I've promised myself to spend the month with breath. and being. and to that, I now add the phrase, "you are loved"

[Marianne]

It sometimes hits me how much the seasons affects our cycles in life when I spend time visiting other people's blogs. For all those months when I was blogging in Afghanistan I was on the same seasonal cycle to you - now it is completely upside down and it really feels quite odd. Beautiful image and yes, "You are so loved".

[gem]

i heart this lovely*ness. thank you for my new desktop image, Susannah.
xo,
gem

[vivienne]

oh..its gorgeous...and the perfect thing for me to look at every day.
thanks lovely you!

[nelly]

thinking about summer and planning my next adventures is what keeps me going through these cold, grey winter days.
thank you for the images and the reminder of being loved.
thank you. thank you.

[Astrid]

Lovely photos here.
I know what you mean, summer feels very far away. But on the bright side, mornings are starting to get lighter every day - at least in Bergen - and it makes me smile.

[Carol]

I've shared the last two rotten summers with you... I am SO hoping that we will experience a summer this year. Of course the snow is falling today :-) Gotta love this British weather.

Peace

[jeanine]

oh boy oh boy, did i ever need to read these words today. thank you.

[Christina]

I loved reading this... let me read it again. "You are so loved"

; )

[susanna]

These are beautiful photographs, Susannah. So soft and serene.

You and I are on the same page these days. :)

[amber]

Thank you, dollface.

:)