.....how many times??

......i will shortly be moving home.............again............this will be the 21st time since i left my parents house aged 17!!!!....

i could write a book you know...not only on the places I've moved to......

Scottish island.....welsh mountains.......wild sea shores......gentle farmland......

but the best way to pack up and ship out.....

i have it to a fine art.....

every time i clear out more stuff.....

on my last journey i hope i will leave a battered old suitcase with my most treasured memories held safe inside..the essence of me...

but for the moment it will  have to be a man with a van!!

gladden the heart..

 ...sometimes...when you least expect it...a view grabs you by the throat and demands to be investigated...

chatting about why the field of bright blue linseed  was suddenly gone on our return from a lazy lunch of steak pomme frites and fizzy pop..cursing that we didn't stop to photograph it on our sunny journey out...around the next bend and a fast u-turn led us to this ......

pure beauty...nature at its flamboyant best....

all thought of blue a hazy memory.

if you go down to the woods today..

.....it is amazing what random things you find while walking the dog......this gave me a fright as I rounded the corner!!!!!........when i got close it looks like some sculpture......a rural twist on the statue in the park........may be some art project? or just a lost helmet in the woods....

as usual as soon as someone mentions the word drought the English weather decides to rain solid for twenty four hours....flaming June it is not.

Magpie Academy: Our Magpie Academy....blooming beautiful!

Magpie Academy: Our Magpie Academy....blooming beautiful!: "Martin and the Magpie New course dates 2011 Welcome to our summer and autumn classes. We have tried to make these a bit different and what..."

read it!

.....for everyone who has felt a bit different to the crowd......gathered herbs......hated school...stitched a quilt.....smelt the warm dusty mane of a horse...known rejection....wished something they wouldn't dare to do.....there is a piece of Truly in us all.

pathways

ancient......rovers.....high point.....three counties......late evening.....hazy.........sun setting...skylarks singing....steady breeze blowing....breath taking...mind clearing....distant ploughed furrows.....green...yellow...blue....nature....England.....my land.....awe inspiring beauty...

reaching out

its time is past

it is reaching out