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I have been slowly returning to the Glen these days of Mí na Marbh. The river water has been consistently brown It is strange and beautiful and I know its bad for the river to carry such a load. I know it must be coming from the housing developments upstream. This is my fourth eveningContinue reading “Saturday 16 November 2024 Brown Waters and bird calls”

The river is a deep ochre today The teals have returned and everyone is talking about them as their whistles hoot the Glen

The gaps between walks stretch and collapse these days and today the winds shimmy in song and ripple ~ summoning and releasing invisible presences in air, on water, through the winter valley The whisper touch of living and dying, honed branches and fallen leaves speak in shapes shifted from puddles, on the gravel, at theContinue reading “Winter ~ Saturday 9 December 2023”

There is a synching of things, tracings and happenings in the Glen The bins have mutated to synch with the park the surfaces and spaces tuning to one another the brown bronze of the swollen river there are riverine forms and fluid traces drifts and swellings the movement across surfaces the metallic surface of theContinue reading “mirroring fire and water ~ Sunday 22 Oct”

So much happens all day every day – then there is a deluge – the river runs fast and with an urgency cutting through the Glen – filling spaces and gouging out where there is no channel to support its course, brown red brown opaque liquid clay fills the glen, swarming about trees, filling theContinue reading “Deluge – Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 17-19 Oct 2023 – Storm Babet – spin, rinse, hangout to dry”

entering beneath the lines in Sunday mists ….dew lingering every where it can

I am back in the Glen in the early morning, its a time of a coming new moon and transition… dead dry docs are stalking through the still lush grass …rowan fruiting vermillion, chestnuts spiking up and the Chicken of the Woods returns to the womb of the hollowed poplar stump making a basket ofContinue reading “Tuesday 15 August 2023”

It’s raining a cold March rain as I stand at the Snake awaiting the arrival of A, who is searching for her red wellies… my gaze meanders over the familiar patchwork; circles squares texts and textures…the musical notes, the yinyang, always landing on Vincey Long is a Legend… I remember V the child, back inContinue reading “liftings, slippings….Tuesday 14 March 2023”

Another gap, plenty of water under the bridge. flowing flowing Back to the Glen I stand over the river facing the disappearing waters as they flow under me away from me this is the direction for the turning of the year, watching the waters wash westwards the low sun rising at my back we areContinue reading “Solstice 2022”