Frosted Grasses

Frosted Leaves. We had a stunning week  – cloudless days of intense blue, with sharp frosts of -8C or so.  It was like being abroad… These grasses were in a frost-hollow that the sun was just beginning to touch, I was really drawn to the flowing shapes and the contrasting colours. “As human beings we […]

Frost Flowers

Frost Flowers. Frost-encrusted mosses, catching a glint of sun.  Each spike of moss had grown a crystal of ice, with further ice crystals growing from these. “At the one extreme, we think we’re not good enough to testify for a better world.  At the other, we fear going crazy, screwing up, failing, being crucified or […]

Christmas Mushroom

Frozen mushroom in moss. In the woods this week – a decent frost on the leaves and mosses, when I spotted this bright mushroom, completely iced over after the previous night’s rain. Suitably “festive” colours? “In the traditional shamanic cultures, healing bears little relationship to the remission of physical symptoms.  It refers, rather, to becoming […]