Cascade, River Orchy One minute its beautiful hot sunshine and everything is sparkly, the next minute its back to winter. “Spirit requires matter to express itself, and matter needs spirit to give it motion and meaning. As your understanding grows, you begin to see spirit and matter in all things, as two inseparable aspects of […]
Stone Circle, near Aviemore England had all that snowfall last Monday – and we had none! Until midweek, that is. Thursday saw 8 inches or so, and on friday night another 12 inches fell. I’m feeling glowing and tired after several great ski expeditions around the valley. Here’s a local ancient stone circle from yesterday’s […]
Birch reflections on ice. Stones beneath. Last week’s snow thawed during this week, in the process of which I found this ice beginning to break up. I love the way the shapes combine, together with the reflected birch tree – a bit of a Tangram puzzle! I’ve really noticed the days getting longer this week, […]
Pine Pollen Ripples, Loch Garten, Strathspey. Pollen from the overhanging Scots Pine made these galaxy-like patterns & clusters, with the gentle ripples along the shoreline. Fractal mathematics (the mathematics of natural patterns) tells us about self-similarity: nature shows us similar-looking patterns at many different levels of scale. “Concerning matter we have been all wrong. What […]
