Message in a bottle

The evening sun catches this cut flower stem in a blue bottle on the kitchen windowsill.

Our plans changed today when our lunch guest was unable to join us. Covid is circulating round these parts again. But not nearly as badly as it was back in the early days of the pandemic.

We went for a decent walk before lunch and spent the afternoon in the garden.

A peacock butterfly flew into the garden room. We quickly liberated it.