by Patrick | Feb 8, 2025 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, wilderness
Wind rattles a piece of loose guttering against the bargeboard on which its mounted, irregularly and irritatingly. The trees at the bottom of the garden angrily tap their branches together as the wind buffets them. It’s not a full-on gale; it’s probably...
by Patrick | Dec 21, 2024 | art, art as language, BRotS, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
In my last post in November, I wrote of my mental confusion and the twists and turns I was making to find a way forward with my work. Since then, I have done plenty of work with the camera, but the problems remained unresolved. I am beginning to realise that many of...
by Patrick | Oct 27, 2024 | art, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, photography
As October drifts to an end so we change our clocks – or not, depending in part on the clock. Clocks on computers change automatically, supposedly the car is linked to house Wi-Fi so should change with the computer but won’t, so will stay on French (or wherever) time...
by Patrick | Oct 18, 2024 | art, education, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
One of these mornings you’re gonna rise up singing. Yes, you’ll spread your wings, and you’ll take to the sky. But ’til that morning, there’s nothing can harm you....
by Patrick | Oct 13, 2024 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, wilderness
Bore Da as they say in Wales. Good morning Some of us honour our roots, our predecessors and their construction of the Judeo-Christian culture in which we live. It expresses itself in many ways and yesterday I went on one of my favourite memory walks through a copse....
by Patrick | Aug 16, 2024 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, painting, pastels, Remembrance
“You guys have no idea how painful it is to have been young during the absolute peak era of the greatest empire in human history and now be forced to watch it all unravel. The saddest part is that we are doing it to ourselves. Absolutely agonizing experience. Like...
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