Solace on Sunday

Occasionally I wander into  church yard near where I live.  I am not a religious person but I find this little green sanctuary after a busy week; restorative.   It is quiet because it is away from a busy road.  However if you look closely and listen carefully it buzzes with life

Every bit of green land surrounding Reading and much of the Thames Valley has been built upon.  Wild life has been squeezed and squeezed into ever decreasing green patches no less than this one.
So while the gardener here goes to great lengths to keep the resting place of the dead tidy by clipping the excesses of Mother Nature.  She has other ideas to keep the place vibrant for the living.

Further reading God’s Acre ; the flowers and animals of the parish church yard by Fransesca Greenoak Illustrated by Clare Roberts.