A white day, the fog hung till late in the day and by the time I left the house just before 5pm the low cloud was beginning to lift. I got a message from A just as I was putting on my boots – meet you in the Glen – I hoped to get inContinue reading “Tuesday 26.0.2021 Dusk”
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Thursday 21.01.2021 Walk with V
I had a walk with V this morning, we met on Whatsapp at 8.15 from a wet and haily Sligo to a bright and frosty Cork. The sun was sliding into the Glen from the East and unfreezing the frost. We talked about real contact in this time of social distancing and lockdown, about theContinue reading “Thursday 21.01.2021 Walk with V”
Monday 18.01.21 Damp & overcast – Velvet Shank Spore prints
Today the veil of fog never lifted and i walked out after 3pm. I had been in the studio preparing paper and looking at my collections. I remembered the velvet shanks I picked last week and went to check on the spore prints – they are a beautiful white as predicted and there is theContinue reading “Monday 18.01.21 Damp & overcast – Velvet Shank Spore prints”
Sunday 17.01.21 CleanUp
An interim clean up with small posse, N, I, L, G, E – oddly enough I_GLEN! With me it’s JI_GLEN or GLEN_JI, and now I’m somehow hearing a Genie in there, how bad <3. I collected the trolly from outside the Council Depot where we parked it last week. The trolly had been in theContinue reading “Sunday 17.01.21 CleanUp”
Saturday 17.01.2021 Busy Park
A late walk today it’s after 4.30 and I hear the bikes as I enter, growling angrily below, the large boys seem too much for these small motors and they are straining as they cut up the wet turf on the football pitch. I decide to go towards the ridge, up and away from theContinue reading “Saturday 17.01.2021 Busy Park”
Friday 15.01.21 the northern edge and the oak stump
Two walks today. An early on a mission to procure a velvet shank, to take a spore print, excited to see if it will yield the white pattern that will be the final test to identify it as one of this kind. I enter the Glen my usual way, between the young birch and itsContinue reading “Friday 15.01.21 the northern edge and the oak stump”
Thursday 14 January 2021 ~ A circuit
Today there was a young heron in the egret’s spot, she was not too bothered by me and didn’t engage in any games of hide and seek, knowing her place and wading about it, busily piercing the surface of the water with her long beak. I head Westwards along the Northern bank of the pondContinue reading “Thursday 14 January 2021 ~ A circuit”
Tues 12.01.21 ~ 8am video walk with Vanya
I was early today at 8am for a video walk with Vanya , it was light in The Glen but still dawning in Sligo. We walked and talked and skated the surface of our places mixing deer fences with old walls and talking about our all too human contact and how to listen more toContinue reading “Tues 12.01.21 ~ 8am video walk with Vanya”
Mon 11.01.21 ~ Bird skull signs
Grey day late lightening and rosy in the west when it does…shepherd’s warning. I go in late afternoon, through the Glen to Blackpool, looking for wintergreen to add as a preservative to my sticky blackberry ink, 2 bagsfull, evacuated from the freezer to make room before Christmas. I see the decoy again and also theContinue reading “Mon 11.01.21 ~ Bird skull signs”
Sun 10.01.21 ~ Birch and other skins
I enter by the birch and say hello, wander down to the river where the Little Egret decoy catches my eye as usual, hanging in the bush on the far side, and as usual it makes my heart jump, a plastic bag I believe. The poplar stump holds its audience, and I picture its oldContinue reading “Sun 10.01.21 ~ Birch and other skins”