Yesterday I girded my loins to take a walk to the marsh by myself. Although I know the route it involves crossing a busy road where one has to judge the flow of traffic at traffic lights. This is something that gives me a sense of dread and foreboding. Biggie’s traffic work was impeccable, so… Continue reading Roads, Trains, and Ants.
Tag: disability and creativity
Little Parasols
I believe these are a variety of Glistening Ink Cap fungi, palest cream and brown at the cap edges, clustered in the deep gloom of the forest floor. Bright green moss forms a carpet underneath.
Dark Delights
A dark purple Chrysanthemum flower centre, with closely packed pale cream stamens, adorned with water drops like jewels. The outer petals fold into inky darkness.
Tulip’s Kiss
Oh so mysterious, oh so sensuous ! A deep purple tulip lined with white at the petal edges glows quietly from the inky black shadows. The petals hint at softness, gentleness, and something wondrous.
Alien Invasion
A strange upturned umbrella of funnel like seeds spouts, papery and pale, rise from a flat green blue base. What flower is this ? Is it too strange and out of focus to say, there merest hint of form in the blur.
Snowflake Stars
In the deep shade of the trees tiny white multi petalled flowers reach up to find the spring sun. Their trumpet like blooms open to the warmth, with tiny pollen dusted yellow centres advertising that business is open for bees and insects. Only one of the three here is in focus, the two behind are… Continue reading Snowflake Stars
Sparkling Seedhead
A golden brown seeded on a slim stem bursts open like a firework, throwing tiny dandelion like seeds into the blue green background.
Hydrangea Stars
Emerging from darkness are lilac pink hydrangea flowers, their four petalled blooms crowding together and fighting for attention. Their texture looks almost papery, and the delicate reaching stamens at the centre a gentle purple.
Red Campion at Dawn
At the side of a shady path through the woods grow Red Campion flowers. Searching for the early summer sun they reach up to greet the dawn, their slightly furry stems and leaves glinting with silver. In the background a dream of green and early summer light hints at the day ahead.
The Three Amigos
Three candy pink Japanese Anemones span side to side of a frame filled with deep shadows and smears of pink. The flowers centres are like golden yellow crowns above the splayed flurry of petals.
Butterfly Hydrangea
Out of the black comes a single four petalled hydrangea flower, its pink petals flattened and the tiny nub of the centre sitting neatly. It is almost like one of nature’s spaceships coming in at an almost flat angle to land. Behind it indistinct siblings fade into the background.
The Ghosts of Summer
Spent Hydrangea flowers, papery and golden brown, their slim stick like stems bearing them aloft in a haze of blue green. Tiny seed heads of brown dance above the whispering faded petals.
Sandy Dogs
Most dogs love the beach, and ours have been no exception. Here are Biggie on the left – ears flapping in the wind, body gritty and damp from rolling in the wet sand. And retired guide dog Jackson on the right – barely keeping still and fairly vibrating with nervous energy that wants to zoom… Continue reading Sandy Dogs
The Big Dog
Biggie, his pale yellow fur slightly mucky and damp, sitting in his neon yellow and white guide dog harness on a tarmac lane. The lane stretches away between two autumn leaf strewn high banks. We walked down this lane in all kinds of weather over the four and half years we were together. Rain both… Continue reading The Big Dog
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