An unexpected meeting with inspiration.

Lacking in inspiration for my latest piece, I sat in the garden, only aiming to catch a few rays and paint my nails. I hadn't thought about the possibilty of being overcome with such a renewed sense of writing inspiration merely in the back garden, but that's what happened.

It is a sore point that I'm longing to return to my perfect thinking place, the river in Durham. And on a day like today, the weather was perfect for a frappe and a meander round my favourite walk, followed by some sunbathing on the river bank in the company of only my Johnny Depp beach towel and my mp3 player.

I don't know if it was my choice to mirror the ideal with my beach towel on the lawn and my earphones on my phone's music player (since my mp3 player seems to have breathed its last...) or simply because it was such a beautiful day, but inspiration seemed to find me.

The sky was a clear, bright blue. I didn't feel the usual sense of panic when the bees came near me (and they always do. I can distinctly remember running along the walkway by the river shouting 'there's a bee!' interrupting the peace of some poor family on a Sunday afternoon walk...) and I began to take note of the things in the garden, and the birds in the sky. One thing I'd never noticed before was the budding of the willow tree, about to come into leaf. For some reason I only seem to notice the willow when its branches are bare or when the leaves are falling, but today I broke that rule...

The afternoon was only made more perfect by the Owl City which I was playing through my phone. The album 'All Things Bright and Beautiful' reminds me of two things 1) summer 2) possibility.

It was last summer that I first heard this very album, when possibility lay before me. The possibility of travel and adventure. The possibility that my trip to Poland would bring.

Right now I'm faced with that exact same thing. More travels bring more possibility, more excitement and more adventure. Sure, I don't really know where exactly I'll be in a year's time but all I can see now is possibility. Positivity.

My nails are now a bright purple, my vision for the future invigorated, and most importantly...inspiration rocked up. And now my main character is faced with more possibility than ever!