Today’s Pictures: 23 Apr 21

New growth surrounds an ancient tree, not yet ready to burst its buds. ‘In soft flowing semi-transparent gold from throat to knee, escorted by the droid, she was walking the fourth level.’Stuart Aken, The Methuselah Strain These photographs from our local forest will finish at the end of April, by which time I’ll have posted …

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The Father I Never Knew

Kenneth Burden He died on this date in 1948, just 16 days before I was born, so I never met the man my mother always called ‘Daddy Ken’. She described him as a kind and wonderful man who never had a bad word for anyone. He spent his adult life as a car mechanic and …

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