Purple haze

This post is a bit of a cheat — life has exploded all over my, um, life, and I’m treading water — but here’s a teaser of something completely amazing, something I’ve been waiting to see since we first decided to move here:

I wish you could scratch-and-sniff the screen and experience the powerful-yet-ethereal fragrance of the lavender fields here in the Cotswold.  Soon they’ll be at their peak, then harvested and gone.  Here’s hoping we can find a sunny day for another visit before this annual gift disappears …