Someone laid an egg yesterday. 
Was it you? Maybe not. 
Certainly was not you and I know it was not me. 
And we know for sure that Queenie, waiting patiently under leaden skies for a little sun, did not lay an egg. 
Out of the gray a roving spotlight of sun shot through and we all forgot about the egg.
Instead we stood very still in our tiny spots of sun – our sun spots. 
And breathed warm thoughts. And when the sun winked back under the clouds again.
I took the precious egg inside, walking very carefully up my frozen steps and put it in a tiny bowl then stored it in the fridge. Maybe tomorrow we will get another egg, then I will make … you know I am sitting here wondering what I will make. A cake? An omelette with fresh cheese? A fried egg on toast? Custard and meringues. I think I need to wait until I have three eggs. I have not had an egg in ages. I am not sure I can wait!!
Now, who laid that egg?
Have a lovely day.
celi
PS To while away the winter we will revisit our year ago posts again. On this day a year ago: the drink with the unpronounceable name. Oh I remember this!
PSS And many thanks to Mary at Brissiemaz who nominated me for the Reality Award. Thank you so much for thinking of me.
Also The Brave Cook awarded me for the Blog of the Year award. Thank you so much Lukasz.
I must apologise to all the people who have given me awards over the last while as (what with writing a book in the afternoons) I quite simply do not have the time to give awards my best. And I do feel as though I am letting people down. So one of my blog resolutions for 2013 is to thank people immediately on my pages, then add them to my blogroll as an extra thank you, because I really do appreciate the thought and those award posts take a lot of care and time to make. I am sorry I am unable to participate fully.
c
The Kitchen's Garden 
58 responses to “A Little Dr Seuss Spot – Of Sun and the Origins of an Egg”
Congratulations on the egg, Celi! I love the thought of ‘breathing warm thoughts.’
Wishing you a few more sun spots and and egg or two.
Oh dear, I can just see some of the farmy time taken up by egg hunts 🙂 ! Now I am a purist, an oyster you eat au naturel, a precious fresh egg you soft boil and eat with fresh toast fingers! For sure 🙂 ! Would love to trensport myself to help in this at the moment. Whilst you people may be shivering, Australia is in the throes of a ‘Fifty Year Event’ as far as heat is concerned. Up to 50 degrees C in places yesterday, Mebourne over 45 C and a whole week of it ahead. Yes well, there IS a problem: four of our seven states are alight already with humongous bushfires [forest fires]. Today 40+ where I am, next week worse. At the moment I’d take the snow: have been in the fires – devastating! On with your meager sun and the eggs!!
merciful heaven, that is awful.. australia and its bush fires and timeless and legendary .. must be terrible.. my daughter in in melbourne, I hope she is ok.. i shall have to call her.. I had no idea it was that hot, but 50.. that is deadly.. stay cool darling girl, and move slowly for this week.. c
Hello Miss C, very hot even in the mountains today still 40C at 5pm……..will send over some sunshine for the the farmy……..would love some of your cool air.
I thought of you today when I read a splendid article on Napier……..a picture of a food stall at the HB farmers’ market offering fried bread with golden syrup…..yum!
Wonderful portraits, all. Even if the subjects couldn’t possibly have laid an egg, they are quite photogenic.
If you haven’t found a solution for your egg…Check out the egg in a basket at Karista’s kitchen. It’s a perfect way to make that one egg sing with a good supporting cast. cheers 🙂
Beautiful picture of Queenie’s eyelashes in the spot of sunlight. 🙂
I guess I wasn’t the only one to notice those long eyelashes. Thanks for the close-up detail shots to show us what we’re missing. What did you do with your special egg?
Maybe it was the goose and there’s gold in that egg!