Morning Magic
"There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!" Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nearby Shores
"Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! thine own has reached the shore." Â Hindu Proverb
Wild Waters
"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand." William Butler Yeats
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Look up!
Sometimes the picture is just above your head, all you have to do is look up... 😉 "To be awake is to be alive." Henry David Thoreau Gallery
Robin
"A forest bird never wants a cage."Â Henrik Ibsen A family of robins has made their home in my garden. Their chicks have survived this year and are hopping around in my shrubbery. (last year the Magpies got them) So I grabbed my camera and thankfully the adults were...
A Splash Of Colour…
...for the end of the week. These lavender buds caught my eye the other day and I thought they'd make a colourful decoration for my blog. "The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."Â Marcus Aurelius Here's to happy thoughts and colourful souls! Have a great...
To The Bath House…
Or, please mind your head! I love stumbling across scenes like these. For me they are relics of a by-gone era and a reminder of how different life once was - more sedate, a little more refined but certainly less convenient than our modern comfortable existence.
Happy Easter
Happy Easter everyone!! Please excuse the lack of updates to my blog - it's that time of year again and I'm rushed of my feet with work. I'll try to be a bit more "bloggy" - promise! Have a great weekend. 🙂 "Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard...
Winter Chaos
This concludes my mini winter series- time for spring! Thanks for viewing. "It is still colour, it is not yet light."Â Pierre Bonnard
Winter Trees
"The woods were in their winter sleep, Rocked in that repose divine On the wind-swept Apennine; And dreaming, some of Autumn past, And some of Spring approaching fast, And some of April buds and showers, And some of songs in July bowers, And all of love; and so this...
Winter Landscape
"One kind word can warm three winter months."Â Japanese proverb
Mad Dogs and Englishmen…
Or should it be "Mad sheep and Swiss photographers?" When I took this picture it was -10 degrees and there was no one else around, only me and the sheep... and as far as I'm aware, the sheep didn't have a choice 😉 "If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he...
Winter Ghosts
"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."Â Elizabeth Bowen When I took this photo a few weeks ago this is what the landscape in Switzerland looked like -Â However bandwidth issues prevented me from posting for a while... and now spring...