Fern Spiral This week’s choice of image was hard, after a glorious spring week with fresh colour everywhere; wild flowers and blossom, and the woods turning the hillsides green. ” Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.” – Tao Te Ching I like this – whatever our circumstances in life, […]
Bee on Rhododendron. Lots of colour this week – our daffodils are fully out, tulips about to flower, King’s Cup flowering along the riverbank, Wood Anenomes finally out in the woods… it most definitely is spring! This rhododendron in my garden was all sparkly after the previous day’s rain. ” Let the beauty you love […]
Larch Whorl. Warm days are here bringing some sunshine. The fresh larch needles emerging are really soft with a delicate feathery texture. ” If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know its not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s […]
Braeriach Sunset, Cairngorm Mountains. The cold spell continued this week with beautiful clear days and fantastic sunsets casting pink onto the snowy mountains. “All nature does is to continually remind itself who it is. Everything in nature, all of the landscape, trees, rivers, rocks, earth, and mountains are repeating who they are over and over […]
Daffodil, Snow. Its been snowing all week, the mountains are absolutely white with the most April snow in at least 15 years. Here’s a daffodil in my garden during the week, breaking through into the sunshine for a good sparkle! ” Our longing for the eternal kindles our imagination to bless. Regardless of how we […]
The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney – Winter Sunset. I thought you could do with another image from the Ring of Brodgar on Orkney from last week, this time with a much more wintry feel! It suits the weather today, which after some warm days in the week (and my daffodils are finally in flower), is […]
The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney – Winter Sunset. I headed to Orkney this last week, playing with all of the elements. Blizzards and drifting snow, with a rather arctic windchill, followed by spring days of perfect sunshine and blue skies – and no wind whatsoever – the Orcadian equivalent of snow in the Sahara! Everywhere […]
Bubble – worlds within There have been some heavy snow showers this week, with a few sunny spells. I was hoping for a bit more sun today! These bubbles were made by wet snow dropping off a pine tree into the lochan below – you can see the reflection of the tree in the bubble […]
Crocus. I realise that most of you live a lot further south and lower down than I do, so this may be a bit late – but our crocuses are finally fully out. They’ve been up for ages, but there has only been enough sunshine on a few days for them to fully open. A […]
Cascade – catching the flow as it drops over the edge down to the pool below, the sun just catching the top edge. A week of sun, showers, snow, frost, rain, wind, … have I missed anything out? ” When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. […]
Lichen ‘fruiting’ – the red caps really stand out amongst the moss. Sun and showers, it must be March – oh hang on, maybe its just Scotland… I suppose being St David’s day I should have a daffodil here, but that should be a couple of weeks off for us yet. My crocuses would be […]
Randolph’s Leap, River Findhorn Gorge. Rays of sun filtering down through the freezing mist hanging above the river, last weekend. I find Randolph’s Leap, and the Findhorn gorge in general, to have a real magical quality, from the woods and the energy of the river. The river as a symbol of life’s journey must be […]
