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September Mists & Spider Webs, Sept 2025
“Now thin mists temper the slow – ripening beams, Of the September sun..” ~ ‘The Garden In September’; Robert Bridges Beautiful mists softened the morning light this September, creating a quiet, magical blanket hovering over the surrounding fields, hedgerows and woodland. Then there are the bewitching webs, with their diamond – like droplets of the…
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Stormy Morning, September 2025
After rain comes the sun, they say. And after sun, perhaps rain doesn’t come for a while, as was this summer, but when it comes, it does so with force and vigour that makes the difference to anything green seeking just that. It bends and burdens, but reinvigorates and revitalizes at the same time, thus,…
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August, 2025
“They came and were and are not And come no more anew; And all the years and seasons That ever can ensue Must now be worse and few. So here’s an end of roaming On eves when autumn nighs: The ear too fondly listens For summer’s parting sighs, And…
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February, 2025
..how to return through the thawing ground and thin snow; ..From your first winter underground. ~Spring In The Garden; Edna St Vincent Millay Even a small handful of snowdrops spotted along the road can lift my mood, even the first of the signs that the winter is fading, albeit taking its time, can make me…
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January, 2025
Grass afield wears silver thatch; Palings all are edged with rime; Frost – flowers pattern round the latch; Cloud nor breeze dissolve the clime; ~ A Frosty Day, Lord De Tabley ~ Late morning walk, by the frosty gardens of our hamlet, that offer nothing but the skeletal structures, the bare arms and twisted branches,…
cottage in the weald 