Raindrops on Columbine (Aquilegia) Spring seems to have gone into reverse, with a week of sleet and snow showers followed by days of rain. For a while this morning though, the hills were shining with intense light on the snow. There was a moment of sunshine yesterday too, when I took this closeup of raindrops […]
Foxgloves in the rain. Its been a showery week… in fact today’s shower has lasted all day and its still pouring. Yesterday’s shower lasted most of the day – I think I’m spotting a pattern here. Every now and then a I spot a lighter patch of cloud in the distance which gives some hope […]
Taken in very dim evening light, as it gently rained and dripped from the trees. The wood was full of alternating patches of bluebells and wild garlic in flower. I’ve been reading “Quantum Shift in the Global Brain” by Ervin Laszlo. its not easy reading, ranging through advances in thinking on the edges of Quantum […]
Rain Daisy A week of (mostly) beautiful mornings, and afternoon thunderstorms. Sunshine and rain = sparkle. “You were born with wings… why prefer to crawl through life? “ – Rumi.
Raindrops We’ve had beautiful spring days – but also one or two raindrops … pictured here hanging from a birch branch on a very dark day! “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow […]
Aspen, Sangre de Cristo mountains, Colorado. After a week of rain, wind, rain and wind, I thought I’d revert back a few years to some colour from the Sangre de Cristo mountains in Southern Colorado. The intensity of colour was amazing. I’m amazed we still have any leaves left after this week’s gales and battering, […]
Dew on spider web – detail. The tangled webs we weave… All pretence of summer has vanished (“washed away” might be more appropriate), as instead we welcome autumn. (Indian summer, anyone???). We had one fabulous morning this week of mist and sunshine and a million jewelled spider webs strung over the world. The spider’s web […]
Poppy after Rain. I was expecting to send out a picture of rain on the window this week – until yesterday dawned bright and sparkly. So here’s another one from the garden – lilac poppy and raindrops. “Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce […]
Silver Daisy. There was a brief lull in this week’s rain, during which the sun briefly came out. I loved the silvery effect and the texture of the raindrops on this daisy. The individual florets in the head of a daisy grow in two spirals extending out from the center. The clockwise spiral has 21 […]
Evening sunburst after rain, Glenmore, Strathspey. The dark clouds behind completely hide the mountains, but suddenly these old pines were lit up by shafts of sunlight. “Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the Universe together.” – Oprah Winfrey “Every moment of light and dark […]
Echinacea flowers in the rain. In a friend’s garden – doing beautifully considering the non-resemblance of the Scottish climate to their native mid-America. “Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.” – Richard Bach, American Writer.
Lochan Mor – The Lily Loch, Strathspey. Another week of heavy rain! This local loch is covered in lily pads in the summer, so they’re probably relishing the conditions. This week they are well into flower. On this morning it started fair, even the hills were visible, allowing me time to get home just before […]
