beauty.

Four days off work. Four sunny, warm days relaxing with my family and I start to slow down, chill out and notice things around me rather than scurry on by trying to get everything done in record time.

It sounds so easy. Slow down. Look around.

But this is exactly what time off has enabled me to do, and in the most mundane of situations beauty shows itself in its full glory.

Walking into the village  I pass a cottage which I normally would not have noticed. But it would have been such a shame to walk on by on a tunnel-visioned mission without stopping to admire the wisteria in full bloom. That is exactly what I would have done however if I hadn’t been away from my normal hurried routine. This is what I would have missed.

Shame.