The Goodness Within

These pea pods have dried out sitting on top of our woodburner. It's an empty space and with the relatively warm autumn we hadn't needed to light it, until today. It's still not really cold but the rain had driven down all night and all of this morning and everywhere outside was wet, in fact totally soggy. We felt a sudden longing for the warm DRY heat that comes from the woodburner.
And so the pea pods got moved, and some of the drier pods cracked open and inside were these perfect spheres of hard green goodness. If you buy the seed peas in a shop they are ridiculously cheap, so there's absolutely no reason to work at saving seed for next spring, more than the very satisfying feeling it gives me to replant my own harvest, 6 months later.
Now the inside of our house, at least downstairs, is 24°C and lovely and dry! In fact it felt so nice that, knowing I'd be returning to this delicious warmth, I ventured out for a short walk to the centre of the village, where I grabbed the extra picture of dripping rowan berries!