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Category Archives: Gardens & gardening
The blossom opened early…
Did the tree know something I didn’t, had it heard the starting pistol, received the signal, been slipped the secret cue that something big was underway; something that could contain itself no longer but must “out” into the light? Or had it simply felt it must take that leap of faith, be the one to demonstrate, through actions, that it dared to be all today that it had hoped to be tomorrow so that others would also believe this was possible and much more so than just through the endless repeating of words? No more waiting. No more striving. No more hoping and trekking and aiming and intending and visualising but BEING it. Did it want to manifest what it already knew to be so in its heart’s potential, to bring it out of hiding and into that light, however cautious and conditional these times still urged it to be, however much of a mixed blessing the sheer intensity of that light it was reaching out into could sometimes feel? Had it decided there was no more time left for slumbering underground, its tenderness tucked away inside dry woody branches? Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Gardens & gardening, Life journey, Nature, Personal Development, Photography, Seasons, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
Tagged audacity, awakening, being first, birdsong, blooming, blossom, daring, daring to be, doing it now, evolution, letting go of hesitation, light, nature waking early, new beginnings, no more fear, no more waiting, of the light, opening, optimism, ready, rebirth, seasons, seasons coming early, shining your light, spring, start, transformation, trees, vulnerability and pain
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The winter garden
A garden I know so well, from a different season…and here it was, dressed up in its winter clothing. There’s something eerily magical about a sleeping garden in mid winter; you can almost sense all that latent energy pulled deep … Continue reading
Posted in Art technique, Gardens & gardening, Health & wellbeing, Nature, Photography, Seasons, Travel, Walks
Tagged Christmas, garden, Hampshire, inspiration, secret garden, West Green Gardens, winter
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The birds
In an era when the television could be retired completely, for all I care, and when Nature provides some of the most joyful and entertaining moments of my experience, the various bird feeders placed within view of the window where … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Entertainment, Gardens & gardening, Music & theatre, Nature, Photography
Tagged A Sky of Honey, Aerial, Beatles, birdsong in music, blackbird, Cirrus Minor Pink Floyd, coal tit, Elbow, fledgelings, Fresh Handmade Sound, garden birds, Ian Anderson, Ian Neal, Kate Bush, lapwing, Monsrous Pyschadelic Bubble, wood pigeon
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