I want… all days to be as beautiful as this

This morning Mr Doo awakened me with a cup of tea, as usual, on his way out to work at 7.15am.  But unusually, instead of grunting the obligatory “love you, have a nice day” before falling back asleep, I woke up instantly… because as he left, he called out: “By the way, it’s snowed.  Look outside – everywhere is white.”

And he was right – it was.

Ignoring the temptation to go back to sleep, I forced my eyes open and phoned my daughter, who was in bed two rooms away (we like phoning each other while we’re both at home; it amuses us).

“Look out of your window,” I said.

“Why?” she mumbled. “What’s happened?”

“Just go. Look. Stay on the phone.”

“Mumble.  Grumble. OH WOW!”

“Want to go for a walk?”

“Yeah, OK then” – to my utter surprise; she rarely gets up before midday.

So, we gulped down a quick cup of tea, put on several layers of cardigans/fleeces/jackets etc, then off we went. We had a lovely walk up over the footpath that winds its way between fields from Clynnog Fawr to the beach, stopping every few feet to take photos.  The sun was just rising, so the maj0rity of the photos are either blue-tinged or pink-tinged, depending on the light and the direction in which the camera was pointing.

It was bitterly cold out there, but after an hour of walking in our many layers of clothing, we returned home feeling hot and happy.  Such a perfect day… I’m now working from a sleeping bag on my sofa, watching TV while I catch up with a bit of blogging and admin… Hardly the most productive day I’ve had in recent months, but I can honestly say that today has so far been my favourite day in a very long time – the sort of day where you realise just what’s important in life, and that its various little glitches really don’t matter in the great scheme of things

Here are my favourite couple of photos from this morning; you can see the rest, if you’re interested, at http://www.flickr.com/photos/debbidoo/