THE NEW YEAR

 Hello everyone, although 2024 was uneventful in many ways, it was filled with love from family and friends and I count my blessings. If I am as blessed in 2025 I will be a very happy and enriched old lady. I wonder what you all did on New Years Eve! I spent it alone, enjoying doing a jigsaw puzzle my daughter Eva had given me at Christmas.I heard the rockets and fireworks go off at midnight and ate 12 sultanas which is a customary Portuguese tradition to bring good luck and prosperity in the New year.

The finished puzzle

The weather has been fine and sunny for several weeks.temperatures of 10 degrees reaching 15 degrees in the afternoon. On Christmas morning and also on New Year afternoon when I went outside to feed the birds, I saw a bee on the flowers of my Crassula  ovata plant. It was such a surprise and  an unusual sighting in these low temperatures. I wondered how long it would survive when flowers and pollen are not so readily available. Has anyone else seen one in December and January? I didn't have my camera with me, so no photos I'm afraid, but I just wanted to share this phenomenal occurrence. 

I would also like to share the book my Grandson Pedro gave me at Christmas. I have started reading it and found exploring the wonders of animal navigation engaging from the very first pages.

Back to my balcony and the Green finch in the sun.

Guzzling  Sunflower seeds.

This is it for the first week of the New Year, I did not make any New Year's resolutions and have no plans for this year, but I will be doing what makes me happy,and sharing it with you. All the best.