Trees near the waterfalls
nature
Misty Brecon Beacons
First three are from climbing Sugar Loaf Mountain.
The next two was the view from our cottage on the River Usk.
Wakehurst Botanical Gardens
We visited the home of the Kew Gardens Millenium Seed Bank. It had a giant redwood forest section.
Brecon Beacons Landscapes
Mostly images from my visit to Llangattock Escarpment
Brecon Beacons Trees
I went on holiday for a week to the Brecon Beacons. Here are some shots of trees.
Hainault Forest Country Park
Visited a new small forest and will definitely return.
Spring Epping Forest Walk
A walk in sunny Epping Forest at the very start of Spring.
Daffodils at Sunset
Daffodils are here.
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Lilly's Wood after a summer rainshower
At the beginning of August.
Ethereal Garden
Playing around with the nifty fifty in the garden.
Lovely Asters
Alliums just as good old as they do in full bloom.
An Evening Park Sunset Walk
It was a nice evening with sunset looking to be a good one so I went for a walk through Priory Gardens, home to a large pond and former formal gardens of an long gone manor house. I didn’t have my SLR with me only my phone, I’ll be taking my SLR next time.
I first came across a large gaggle of goslings who were keen for me to feed them.
Sunset round the pond looked lovely
The light looked great among the trees, there weren’t many people around.
In the formal gardens by the chuch is an magnificant ancient Beech tree.
When I got home the sunset from upstairs looked great.
Autumn woodland visit
Ashenbank Wood is in Kent near Cobham. It’s an ancient woodland, which means it’s at least 400 years old and has magnificant hornbeams and oaks. I’m glad I discovered it and I’ll definitely be back.
Epping Forest
The first autumnal visit of the year.
Autumn
I love the way lamplight illuminates the autumn leaves, it feels like a little bit of magic.
Liminal landscapes
"We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are"
Summer garden
I stayed over at my parents house and as I finished making my coffee in the morning I ventured into the garden to soak up the morning sun. As I wondered down towards the end of the garden to see how all the fruit and veg were growing, I noticed the colourful Asters and Gloriosa Daisies because the sun was shining on them. The scene as the bees were all over them was too good not to capture so I went inside and grabbed the only camera I brought with me, my phone.
Summer waiting
In the summer there's a good deal of waiting around, but in the sunshine it makes it a wonderful experience.
Beauty, Solace, Gratitude
Beauty
The harvest of presence, the evanescent moment of seeing or hearing on the outside what already lives far inside us; the eyes, the ears or the imagination suddenly become a bridge between the here and the there, between then and now, between the inside and the outside; beauty is the conversation between what we think is happening outside in the world and what is just about to occur far inside us.
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
Solace
“Solace is what we must look for when the mind cannot bear the pain, the loss or the suffering that eventually touches every life and every endeavour; when longing does not come to fruition in a form we can recognize, when people we know and love disappear, when hope must take a different form than the one we have shaped for it.”
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
Gratitude
“To see the full miraculous essentiality of the color blue is to be grateful with no necessity for a word of thanks. To see fully, the beauty of a daughter's face is to be fully grateful without having to seek a God to thank him.”
― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words