Winter's grip
Morena,
Winter's grip is well and truly upon us with light snow falling on the lavender fields last week. The lavender is nicely pruned and awaits the first warmth of the coming Spring - although thats probably two months away.
Winter is a great time to soak in the memories of summer, the scent of our lavender and sensation of our lavender mist.We thought we would waken up your mid-winter, and perhaps briefly release winter's grip, with a classic song from the mid 1980's.
"Lavender" is a song by the British rock band Marillion. It was released as the second from their 1985 UK number one concept album Misplaced Childhood.
The song features a number of verses that are reminiscent of the folk song Lavenders Blue which we featured in a previous blog."Lavender" recalls the innocence of childhood:
The childhood theme also brought up the idea of utilising an old children's song and "Lavender" was an obvious contender as one of the original pop songs of its time.
Going through parks listening to Joni Mitchell, "Lavender" is the little boy's dream about you can walk through the park and bump into the lady of your dreams that you're going to fall instantaneously in love with.
We hope this lightens your wairua in the middle of winter!
Ka kite