the first warm day

2025 · 05

First proper warm day on Saturday. The park was full of people looking a bit dazed by it, as if none of them had seen the sun before.

My tree has its leaves back. Small ones, that thin bright green, not the heavy summer colour yet. A heron down at the water. Could have been a different heron. I've decided not.

In the afternoon M. and I hauled two chairs out onto the balcony, wedged in among all the pots, and had tea outside for the first time this year. Didn't do much. Sat, talked a bit, mostly sat. The tomato plants look better from a chair than they do up close. We sat out until the light went, and for once I wasn't itching to be doing something instead.