I think sunshine has a habit of making everything look better, and feel better, and sound better, and taste better. Here in Britain we live under a perpetual cloud. The winter sky is characteristically overcast, gloomy light turning everything into monotone. When the sun finally does manage to beam her face down at us, once the relentless clouds have given her the stage for a moment or two, the world is suddenly flushed with colours I never knew existed!
Wow, grass is THAT GREEN?!
That tarmac is looking particularly handsome today!
My goodness, I never noticed how very pink those roses are.
Oh, glory days, this doorstep is the most gorgeous russet I have ever set my eyes on. Peonies nodding in sunlit breeze. Gleaming black railings against the stark white of a Kensington building.
Everything has a humming vibrancy when the sun comes out.
n.b The photo taken above was actually in Spain.
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