Rocks, sky, sunshine

Lying on the rocks in the early spring sunshine, enjoying a moment of peace quite literally above anything else.

I am like a cat, in the way I need to climb up somewhere until there is just the sky and quiet, to relax.

A Green Silence

“Green was the silence, wet was the light,

the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” Pablo Neruda

Wide Open Spaces 02 | Forest

Wild Open Spaces

Sand dunes and beach | Holkham

I Capture The Castle

Hiding in plain sight

Yellow

Happy Easter x

Rules

DO NOT LEAN CYCLES AGAINST THIS WALL...

 I love walking past this wall. Not for the colours or style, or anything ‘worthy’, but the fact that there is always at least one bike nonchalantly leaning underneath this sign. Hurray for something so random and irreverent bringing a smile to the day.

By the sea

This weekend was much better for a long beach walk...film still in camera but it made me smile & think about my July visit to Whitby...when the weather was actually worse! Ah, the fickle English summer! :) It did suit black and white film at least, as well as looking suitably moody and a fitting location for Dracula. I loved it.

Whitby Abbey Part 1.

Whitby Abbey, moody and windswept. Somehow the dire-for-July weather put on the right show for us as the abbey + b/w film seemed a perfect brooding match. 

Slants of light

I was very much enamoured with Saltaire, both the village and the history, but also with inside the converted mill. Not only is it a beautiful building in itself, but it's a wonderful art venue. The art shop just made you want to do, make, create as an excuse to buy some of the lovely materials and I loved the David Hockney exhibition on the top floor. It was a wonderful place to just sit and be- and looking out the old windows, you could have been in any era. I wish wish wish I had been home long enough for this exhibition.

Wentworth Castle

It's taking me a wee while to get back into developing film regularly- I've got lazy-summer-itis- but I am still going through my pictures from home. I do have a soft spot for old houses and crumbling castles so Wentworth made for a good post-festivities walking spot. Wentworth is a huge country house with a fascinating history. The gardens (and deer park) are open to the public and are great fun to wander- I love the mossy smell of old woods. The grounds also have the remains of Stainborough, an 18th-century mock-castle folly- you can climb up one tower and we were rewarded with great, winter-sun-drenched views across the countryside. It's beautiful as a walk alone but the Fitzwilliam family had quite a turbulent and colourful story. As luck would have it, a lovely friend gave me Catherine Bailey's Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of a Great English Dynasty as a Christmas present- the introduction alone is intriguing, I can't wait to get reading.

Crepúsculo

I am back to being at odds with home, in that at the moment, everything is flooded with bright southern hemisphere sunshine and it's a busy morning, whereas back home *yesterday* is winding down. Crazy. There isn't so much a golden hour in wintertime England, as suddenly you realise the sun has plummeted and lights are coming on everywhere and twilight is upon you....At about 3.30pm :) I used to find this depressing- in a working day it felt as if you never saw daylight. The luxury of being home on holiday is enjoying the magical part of the time of day, the fleeting light effects on old buildings and the peering into cosily-lit windows of pubs and cafes. 

Hello there 2012!

♥ cold-but-sunny wintry walks...even if the sun starts to descend at about half 2- good ol' northern hemisphere winters!

A snippet to start the new year... and as this is in Yorkshire...

No coward soul is mine

No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere

I see Heaven's glories shine

And Faith shines equal arming me from Fear....

Emily Bronte