Council Reports 9 Nature Notes When I look out, the sky I see is wide and westerly. Drifting clouds add decoration and can also become a weather messenger. Beneath the sky lays a landscape with grass green paths beside hedgerows laced with dog rose flowers and honeysuckle yellow. A river meanders its course with mace that grows free as it leans with the flow of the water. Here and there purple loose strife adds splashes of colour along the river bank. I walk there, and on my return I can say I saw the red kite soaring, I heard the blackcap calling, I captured the demoiselle resting. Later, the day time sky carries a warning and that and the stirring breeze signal change. Soon enough, rain is tap-ping on the window pane and I watch rivulets run their downward race. I listen to the song of the squall through the leaves of the trees in my garden. Later, when is all calm again and the sun is warm on my shoulders I stroll in the garden and smell the lavender soothing, watch the peacock butterfly on buddleia basking. Later still, I may lay awake a while to recall the sights and sounds of the day. I hear in the distance the dog fox bark, a call of the night if ever there was. I turn to sleep then, content. Was this a dream, no, it is simply a montage of Myland mindfulness moments. I would like to take this opportunity to thank those readers who over the years have been kind enough to express their enjoyment reading my Nature Notes. More recently I am also grateful to those who have expressed their interest in the Myland history articles. The history articles appear on the MCC Website and via local Facebook groups and will continue to do so. I expect there to be future occasional natural history articles also available via those routes. Pete Hewitt for Myland Heritage Group (Nature)
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