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Returning after a weekend away I spot a shaggy ink cap proud beneath the chestnut as I pull round the bend into the park and I must stop here, there is an urgency as I see this fragile perfect thing, so starkly drawn, I know the temptation to kick will be too much for aContinue reading “Return 14.11.2021”

Crab apples, I’ve known they were here for the last few weeks, from the scent that hangs in the air, just haven’t seen them fallen in the same place as last year, under that tree, and looking up there are precious few on the branches. After the weekend winds and rain I find them, piledContinue reading “you’ll be glad you did it yesterday tomorrow ~ Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 15,26,27,28,29 & 30.10.2021”

I have been picking up conkers from the Horse Chestnuts nearby for the last month, as they fall to the ground the impact finds the seams on their outer casing and the deep brown eye peeps warmly from the pith. I pick up the conker and the remaining thirds of shell fall softly away inContinue reading “conker and moon Sunday 24.10.2021”

Its Thursday and I finally got into the Glen on a bright morning, it’s been some time coming, busyness presses in from all sides and it was Sunday when I last set foot in the Glen. So this posting is a bit of a mishmash crossing the weekend from Thursday to Thursday. The council gatesContinue reading “Openings and closings Thurs 21.10.2021”

The Glen sun that rises at one end and sets at the other. Our wee group are coming together as Treepuka to present a Samhain Celebration of dance, poetry and art in our lovely Glen. It will take place on Sunday 31 October…Hallowe’en itself… the threshold of the coming year and a very special timeContinue reading “Samhain in the Glen Saturday 9.10.2021”

Conscious that there is a small window of light before the dusk falls I hop over the barrier into the Glen. There is a new gate, grey as shiny steel and crowned with trident spikes, who owns this gate but the council, opening up another pedestrian entry point to the Glen for them, its lockContinue reading “October dusk Friday 01.10.2021”

I take with me some Japanese Calligraphy paper, the charcoal I made from Willow and Alder and some waxy old stumps from a bag of crayon debris… all blackened on the skin but inside the oily grime is the colour of yellow gold and more… and so I rub the Gréine and Thoir and thenContinue reading “Frottage Tuesday 28/09/2021”

There are trout in the Glen, fish that have thrown up on the bank and speculation about how. We can hardly believe we have trout, it’s a good sign the water is clean. But our trout are dead. So good – so bad. The water odor has been acrid, a parched mean smell sharp inContinue reading “Fish incidents and forgetfulness Monday 27.09.2021”

it’s a bright morning after unsettled weather, I enter the Glen meaning to make contact with the birches as I have begun drawing a book on the first tree of the Celtic Calendar and of the Ogham alphabet, the magical white barked silver Birch is the tree for the first consonant, Beith. I have forcedContinue reading “The Millar…? Equinox Wednesday 22.09.2021”

This is not the Glen, but a response to river sounds and echoes in the flow, surface and depth, the here and now reaching out to a connection with passing through, feelings about rivers…water under the bridge