Music, organizing and food. . . . . .

. . . . . . . coping with another dreary Saturday.

I'm listening to Sir. Edward Elgar's beautiful, atmospheric Enigma Variations

 as I write on this dismal, rain-soaked day. 

Music that stirs the imagination, perhaps sad, but always thought provoking. 

The 'Nimrod: Lux Aeterna' is my favorite opus. 

This older orchestral version (Sir John Barbirolli : Hallé Orchestra) astounding

 of course, but I'm also listening, as I so often do, to the amazing vocal from

 VOCES8, the much-loved British a cappella group - do listen if you haven't

 heard this before, or even if you have.

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/elgar/news/voces8-nimrod/

Keeping busy indoors is perhaps the way to deal with weather such as we've

 been having most of this month. . . . . . . . . a lot of wet, dark days.

There were a couple of pleasant days, such as the ones I grabbed and ran with into

 the garden to prune the fig tree, and pick a bunch of the first blooming daffodils!

Here in the dining room, earlier today, working on re-doing my one of my
 filing boxes - the vintage rabbit cage being my catch-all sitting on the floor next
 to my desk upstairs. Found the package of dark blue 'Celestial' folders on the
 Sale shelf of World Market a few days ago.

Leftover from Christmas - packaging not opened until yesterday so still fresh - an
 Italian Panettone! 

 A warmed slice for Saturday breakfast alongside a coffee, then some baked into 

a 'comfort food', bread pudding, yum, and to heck with the carbs right now.

All is not lost though. Perhaps a bad hair day for the 

proverbial 'bluebird of happiness' as the rain tipples down, 

but the beautiful music plays on.