A Week of Sun - One

I am so heartily sick of ongoing gray skies and muddy ground that I'm in desperate search of every sunny image I can find!  And I will share.

Enough is too much, as some wise person said.  Enough rain already.

This excerpt from Mary Oliver's poem The Sun expresses my feelings well:

and have you ever felt for anything 
such wild love-- 
do you think there is anywhere, in any language, 
a word billowing enough 
for the pleasure 

that fills you, 
as the sun 
reaches out, 
as it warms you 

as you stand there, 
empty-handed— 

image:  Morning sunlight, Tidcombe church Sunlight floods through an east window in St Michael's church, which dates from the mid-13th century.  Hugh Chevallier, geograph.org.uk