#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 09/Mar/22

Tall they standrising to meet the sunlightno shade of pridein their struggle to surviveonly the lifeforcethe drive to livebut oh what talesthey might tell usif we would only hear them *****…*****A few of my pictures appear in the Gallery.And you’ll find many more here for use in book covers, calendars, greetings cards, jigsaws, advertising, or …

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#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 08/Mar/22

Coal in the making: this small area of the forest is permanently wet, acting as a pool for several tiny streams and springs, before they overflow to join the larger brook that drains the valley. Fallen trees will eventually be preserved in oxygen-deprived mud and lie to await the geological millennia it will take for …

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#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 07/Mar/22

To climb or stay on the flat?It’s a dry day, so the path following the fence to the left will be free of the sometime, shallow, flowing stream it harbours after heavy rain. Down there is the nearest route home, and now, after much work has been completed, that rough fence has been replaced by …

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#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 04/Mar/22

The ground here is rarely dry, as witnessed by the growth of juncus. A little used track carries walkers, and the occasional mountain biker, to a wild plateau that overlooks a railway cutting last used over 60 years ago, and now seasonally swamped by a small stream that flows from the tunnel that leads from …

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#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 16/Feb/22

The day held a surprise, a destination neither of us expected to see during our stay. It began with our enquiry at the ticket office for the various boats that tour Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. Our Italian was basic. The lady issuing tickets spoke barely a word of English. But we were confident enough …

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#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 15/Feb/22

‘I should warn you, you’re standing in what’s probably the most dangerous spot on Earth’, so said the tour guide we’d followed, with a small group of other tourists, to the emerging caldera of the reforming volcano at Santorini. She went on to tell us the fumarole a few yards distant was issuing at least …

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#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 13/Feb/22

Walking in the woodsof autumn colours and warmthwe let fall call us *****………………………….*****Some of my pictures appear in the Gallery.But, if you want images to decorate your home or office, use in calendars, greetings cards, jigsaws, advertising, or anything else you fancy in print or online, you will find more here.

#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 11/Feb/22

Uneasy lies the truce between footfalls and wheels in the forest. Multitudes of narrow circles of rubber coated steel press harsh upon wet ground, forming grooves the rain cannot escape and making waterways of once sound walking paths. Slowly, those small streams erode the ground until the soil under walkers’ boots slips away to flood …

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#Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 10/Feb/22

Day’s end or night’s beginningdepends on what’s been doneor what’s intended I suppose A warm summer’s day comesto a close softly lit by a moonfull of the promise of pleasure Gently the evening wavessettle to ripple a surface of calmsharing colours of dusk with a Sky yet blue as a summer daysets an evening gull …

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Poem and #PictureOfTheDay: 05/Feb/22

Gentle flows the brookover soft falls of hiddenrock rounded by time *****………………………….*****Some of my pictures appear in the Gallery.But, if you want images to decorate your home or office, use in calendars, greetings cards, jigsaws, advertising, or anything else you fancy in print or online, you will find more here.

Poem and #PictureOfTheDay: 04/Feb/22

Wide the skies of early summerblue feathered with white puffsof promised rain to comefor crops emerging fromflat furrowed fieldsto make the food we crave*****………………………….*****Some of my pictures appear in the Gallery.But, if you want images to decorate your home or office, use in calendars, greetings cards, jigsaws, advertising, or anything else you fancy in print …

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Poem and #PictureOfTheDay: 03/Feb/22

Blanketed by delicate flakes of whitecrystal sparkles scatteredfine fibres of drowned grassstand proud pointing to thesun that brings them life*****………………………….*****Some of my pictures appear in the Gallery.But, if you want images to decorate your home or office, use in calendars, greetings cards, jigsaws, advertising, or anything else you fancy in print or online, you will …

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Poem and #PictureOfTheDay: 02/Feb/22

Gentle waves wash atchalk scattered sands that liebeneath birthing cliffs *****………………………….*****Some of my pictures appear in the Gallery.But, if you want images to decorate your home or office, use in calendars, greetings cards, jigsaws, advertising, or anything else you fancy in print or online, you will find more here.

Poem and #PictureOfTheDay: 01/Feb/22

Stately oaks line thepath in its sinuous courseto a place not known *****………………………….*****Some of my pictures appear in the Gallery.But, if you want images to decorate your home or office, use in calendars, greetings cards, jigsaws, advertising, or anything else you fancy in print or online, you will find more here.

#PictureOfTheDay: 31/Jan/22

*****………………………….*****A few of my pictures appear in the Gallery.But, if you’re looking for images to decorate your home or office, use in calendars, greetings cards, jigsaws, advertising, or anything else you fancy in print or online, you will find more here.