Because it’s not the big goals and successes in life that bring true happiness, but the little joys that you choose to notice each day.
I used the leftover Yorkshire Pudding batter from Easter Sunday to make toad-in-the-hole. I used the leftover gravy too – so good!
![Little Joys: great food! Toad-in-the-hole](https://contactwithcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/little-joys-food-toad-in-the-hole-sausages-1024x916.jpg)
Little miracle.
![Little Joys in nature: a brand new horse chestnut tree emerging from a conker](https://contactwithcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/little-joys-horse-chestnut-seedling-amazing-nature-wild-tree-768x1024.jpg)
Look up! Gorgeous magnolia.
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Plum blossom on my tree! I may have caught it a little past its best… But it’s still making delicious plums for me!
![Little Joys: Victoria plum blossom](https://contactwithcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/little-joys-nature-garden-patio-plum-blossom-1024x768.jpg)
Love these bright Euonymus alatus leaf buds.
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Met another pretty sawfly. Perhaps Eutomostethus luteiventris, but I’m not sure…
![Little Joys: Eutomostethus luteiventris perhaps, caught in my garden](https://contactwithcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/little-joys-nature-wildlife-sawfly-1-1017x1024.jpg)
This garden friend had a narrow escape from my secateurs! They are filling the pond again now!
![Little Joys: common newt, smooth newt](https://contactwithcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/little-joys-nature-garden-wildlife-pond-newt-1024x768.jpg)
I have really been enjoying my nut snack at work!
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Arum lily in flower. Did you see the amazing segment on pollination of these in David Attenborough’s Wild Isles recently? (See it beginning at 20:39)
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Possibly the most violet of violets I’ve seen!
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The cathedral at night.
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Husband bought me red roses.
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Lily shoots coming up! I think all my potted dahlias are dead after the cold winter, but you can always rely on lilies!
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The community garden looks amazing this spring, and everything was in perfect abundant growth this weekend. I have to admit the claytonia has rather taken over…
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Beautiful anemone blanda! The blues are my favourites…
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I can never bring myself to weed out all the red dead nettle – the bees (and ladybirds) love it so much!
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I’ve seen lots of ashy mining bees this weekend too!
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I foraged some wild garlic. Will make something tasty with it tonight…
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I’m so pleased with this gorgeous tiger eye bead bracelet I made!
![Little Joys: treasures of the earth - tiger eye beads](https://contactwithcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/little-joys-nature-gemstones-tiger-eye-bracelet-beads-1024x849.jpg)