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Morning
Morning came after dreams of pain and healing The road is long before me, Will I find winter Or the first signs of Spring Painting the hillside golden? Will you wait for me While I journey seeking...
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Bluebells and beech trees
When you live in a landscape it is very easy to take it for granted. You see it every day and normality can dull the beauty, busyness draws the attention away from open eyed wonder and everyday cares...
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Hungry
Caught in my son’s garden today, this little family of bluetits made me smile. The babies, like little masked raiders with their bright yellow beaks, the parents, blue capped and harrassed are all very...
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Notes from a small dog LV
It’s spring, people! You can tell… it’s not as muddy any more … which should please her, ‘cause it means less grumbling about paws and cream coloured sofas. And I sort of like it because she’s happy to...
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…. And relax. Or perhaps not…
So another weekend in the north passed quietly, mainly as rain stopped play for most of the time I was there. Not, of course, that it is any less beautiful. It simply meant that instead of tramping the...
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Stirring
Frost ferns creep across the glass; there is beauty in the cold of morning when breath mingles with the mist in intimate abandon and the sun wears a bridal veil blushing gold at her reflection. Across...
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A day of little things
It has been a beautiful spring day here, so the fact that the heating has died again didn’t become apparent until I dipped my toe in the nice, hot bath I had run and found it to be about as warm as a...
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The longest days…
“There is a god…” My tormentor grinned ecstatically. Though quite why he feels the Good Lord should choose to manifest proof of His existence in the tortured screams of a perfectly good hobbit, I do...
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Caught in a web
It was a dark and stormy night… Well, okay, actually it was a bright, sunny afternoon and all I really wanted to do was go out and play… take the dog and the camera, perhaps… look at the greenery and...
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Urban spring
Over the past couple of weeks I have spent an awful lot of hours in the garden, weeding, planting and filling it with future delights. Not my garden, I hasten to add… mine is both very green and very...
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Duck-fight at the OK Corral…
The road that runs through the Home Farm of Waddesdon Manor can be a bit of a pain. It bisects the fields, after half a mile or so and when you are out for a walk with the small dog, it means...
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Saving the best till last
It was long after what is technically classed as lunchtime before I got home. It had been a busy morning in spite of playing with the camera in my son’s garden. The day was sunny but windy… a perfect...
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Pale carpets
The wind roars through the branches; the sound seeming to echo of a far–off sea. The trees are all clothed in green and ochre, though some have yet to unfurl their leaves. The joyous abandon of the...
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Five minutes
It is amazing what you can see in the space of a few minutes if you are looking. I’d taken the camera with me this morning. I usually do, of course, but hadn’t for a few days. I was probably being a...
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