Famara beach, Lanzarote, Canary Islands. As I write this, wet snow hurtles past my window – the first of the winter. Its rather bitter out! So here’s some sunshine instead from two weeks ago in Lanzarote. “… I realised that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing […]
Jura (far distance) and Scarba from storm-lashed rocks. How energetically cleansing it is to be surrounded by such a “fresh” sea… “After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.” – Walt Whitman, […]
Birsay, Orkney Here’s one from this time last year. Birsay “beach” with a snowstorm coming in from the North. I’m amazed these photos came out, with trying to stand upright on slippery rocks in a snowstorm with flying sea-spray. The camera certainly needed some TLC afterwards! The island of Rousay in the distance, catching a […]
