zest [ zest ]
noun
Definition:
1. hearty enjoyment: lively enjoyment and enthusiasm
zest for life
2. exciting and enjoyable quality: an exciting or interesting aspect of something that makes it particularly enjoyable
"If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind."
Norman Vincent Peale
I have a real zest for our life, who we are, what we are about and where we live.
Each day I try to appreciate the environment in which we live in, the impact of our day to day living and the wonderful world around us. An action such as this does not cost anything, sometimes I simply sit and look out of the window but mostly it is when I am out walking with Wilma I take in the very essence of what is on our doorstep!
Up Handale Lane yesterday I fed apples to the horses!
Yes, a new addition!
The horses opposite the new foal were waiting for attention!
Mother and foal!
Doesn't she have her mum's walk?
Up close for a stroke of her nose!
The dot in the distance is Wilma!
This little rabbit quickly scuttled off!
Further up the lane the Honeysuckle perfume was quite wonderful on this sunny day!
The brambles which I will pick for my winemaking later in the year!
Heading back towards home Mother and foal walking through the field
The dot in the distance is Wilma, on her way home.
More horses for apples!
The red tiled roof in the distance, centre of the photograph is our house!
Until another apple feed the horses make do with grass!
So, end of ABC Round 4!
Last week it was decided quite categorically to carry on with ABC Round 5.
This will take us into a 3rd year of the weekly project.
It has been so much fun and I have been thinking about what I will do for Round 5.
I like to have a theme or focus and I have decided that Round 5 will be based on our strive towards a more sustainable self-sufficient life.
All my photographs/thoughts will be based on our little piece of land here in North Yorkshire where each day my zest for life is re-kindled by all I see around me.
To feel the beauty of nature absorbed into my bones inspires me to improve all we have.
I have many friends who are like-minded one in particular, Brigit Strawbridge has been a total inspiration and her concept
The Big Green Idea is awesome!
Check it out, it may be coming to a town near you!
Earth
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Each blade of grass,
Each honey tree,
Each bit of mud,
And stick and stone
Is blood and muscle,
Skin and bone.
And just as I
Need every bit
Of me to make
My body fit,
So Earth needs
Grass and stone and tree
And things that grow here
Naturally.
That's why we
Celebrate this day.
That's why across
The world we say:
As long as life,
As dear, as free,
I am the Earth
And the Earth is me.
Jane Yolen
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Doesn't she have her mum's walk?
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