Into a landscape that might breathe and live.
We made it to our first stop last night and after checking into our creepy hotel (see stories lol) we headed across the street to a brewery that makes some of our favorite beers we enjoy back home. It’s housed in the old Wonder Bread building and is awesome. Today we’re headed further east to the bluffs of the Mississippi for more good beer, food and nature. Onward!
Holkham. We&#039;re heading back home after our lovely little break. So much traffic heading to Norfolk!
Happy Easter weekend errrbody. Whatchya got planned?
I’ve just been for a wander around the garden, and after what seems like an eternity of cold winds, it’s a real joy to feel the warmth of the sun once more.
I hope that one day, I might have my own garden to enjoy and tend to (rather than that of my parents, lovely as it is).
I’m now off into Birmingham @thsh_birmingham for this afternoon’s performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, always a #GoodFriday treat.
The sun’s shinning and the woods are carpeted in blue. The smell is amazing; I wish I could pass on even just a little of the scent so you could fully appreciate it.
Happy Full Moon in Libra🌕 and the start of what’s forecast to be a glorious Easter bank holiday weekend!
If you need me I’ll be slowly cooking in the garden enjoying the smell of blossoms, and the sounds of bees🐣🌿 What are you weekend plans? /// #myquietbeauty #mycountrysidetonic #feelslikespring . . .
Katie, one of our young crofters, welcoming a new addition to the community. New life is springing up all over the Estate. Wishing you all a Happy Easter.
Thanks to Rachel Mackenzie for this week’s beautiful #fridayphoto.
Lots of other animal babies on our stories.
Beautiful Wells next the sea harbour.
I didn&#039;t have my zoom lens with me yesterday. So I captured these two with my Huawei Pro. I have to say I&#039;m pretty impressed by its camera. Do you use a camera or your mobile?
They&#039;re back! Today for the first time since September, the chattering of both swallows and house martins filled the sky above my house and filled my heart with a little swell of joy!
I’m still at work this weekend but being able to ride in the daylight in the evenings means it isn’t so bad. I’m also off to Venice next week so I really can’t complain too much!
I made a new plant acquaintance last weekend: Podophyllum peltatum, commonly known as the Mayapple. Interestingly, the only other species of this genus occurs in Asia. There was something sort of ominous in the appearance of this plant when I happened across it. Perhaps it was the way these tiny umbrellas stood almost perfectly erect and still, each on its single stalk, in a large colony stretching back into the dark, distant wood. I later learned that they are indeed poisonous and can easily spread aggressively, excluding other plants.
A moorland palette, portraits in sepia.
My insta: photo of me on the beach.
Reality: sitting in a room watching the sky darken and the moon brighten as I procrastinate from my italian workbook practice.
We&#039;ve driven past this tiny little sweet shop on numerous occasions. Today we stopped to take a picture. I&#039;d imagine we weren&#039;t the only ones. Quintessential England.
And, we&#039;re home. We had such a great time in Wales celebrating Lyra&#039;s birthday but I&#039;m glad to be home. Tonight is for pizza, game of thrones (managed to avoid spoilers so far), and celebrating 5 years of parenting. Go us!
Despite working all day today, this Thursday felt like a Friday. And tomorrow is Good Friday so it’s smiles all round!
I was going to write a caption to tie in with the blog post I wrote yesterday. But, actually, I want to write about something different instead.
This morning has been bloody difficult. One of my children is prone to dark moods that hang like storm clouds over us all. Waiting to break. We try to teach positive thinking and have had some success with the @happyselfjournal. But this morning was hard. With all of us stuffed in the house together, raw emotions pinging back and forth. .
I did the work. I stayed calm. Tried not to use words that would make things worse. Or linger like wounds to be licked later on. I modelled calm and kindness, even though I felt the polar opposites in my gut. And, as I had hoped, it all blew over within a couple of hours. Both kids skipping off to the cinema with grandparents. The whole hell of this morning forgotten.
Except not by me. It&#039;s still here in the pit of my stomach. Churning and keeping me off kilter. So, while I can be pleased that I modelled calm and kind for them this morning, I realise that they&#039;re showing me how to do forgiveness and moving on. Only, I&#039;m not so quick a pupil. I&#039;m just grateful I actually spotted the lesson. So now I can work at what I need to learn. .
in the beginning. ------- vincent van gogh.
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When you look at these tulips closely, with the sun shining through the pedals, you can’t help but think nature invented stained glass long before we did.
//// #amongstthetrees #thewildnesstonic #searchwandercollect . . .
About a month ago I got an impulse, an idea to create a Kundalini Yoga for Entrepreneurs video lessons. I have been a teacher for past 9 years.
Till I had an honest conversation with myself, why I don’t feel happy and fulfilled in life.
Because I talk myself out from acting on my ideas, waiting for a perfect moment.
Realising it, I booked videographer next day ! I must say, I felt nervous like a schoolgirl after I hanged the phone.
But it’s done !!! And the videos to motivate and support you, on your journey are coming soon !
and there are so many passages that I want tattooed on my skin, so that they would stay with me until the end, like good poetry should. Sometimes I think that if I was to bare my core to someone else, if I was to show my naked and vulnerable self to another human being, it would mostly be composed of words that made me stop and gasp and say ‘yes, it’s true, that’s what I feel and I did not know that it could be poetic, so thank you, thank you for making me understand that nothing is mundane when the right words are used’.
Whatever the weather, I love walking with this loon.
It’s peat season here in Shetland. Lots of people are heading to the hill to cut (cast) their peat. These peats have been ‘raised’(built into pyramids for drying).
On my workbench yesterday. The leaves I found on the roadside growing at the edge of Wimbledon Common on my way cycling to the studio. The flame shaped leaves with the little bright purple flowers are commonly known as the green alkanet or less commonly as Pentaglottis sempervirens. The other leaves are cow parsley.
I’m 16 days into #the100dayproject2019 I committed to and I feel part of me is excited by the challenge and appreciates all the attention and support I receive each day, while another side of me resists the idea that its a continuous thing for another 84 days! I struggle with myself quite a bit. Freedom plays an important role in my art practice, but so does limitations. Balancing these two are my biggest challenge. I feel limiting to select a single leaf each day really brings into focus what speaks to me on a day to day basis. Also, finding the freedom with that aim each day and explore the seasons through leaves brings me so much joy. I love the discussions that unfolded over the past two weeks when I was asking about identifying leaves from buds and as they come into leaf. Tracing the growth of leaves on particular trees has never before been such a consistent focus, for which I’m grateful. I shall persevere with this and continue to seek joy in my days while doing so.
If anyone else is doing a #the100dayproject this year or did in the past or participated in similar longer challenges I would love to hear from you. Please do share how you are managing or managed with such undertaking. Any words of advice you may have would be gratefully received.
Also, as today’s theme with the #springhashtagchallenge is ‘breathe’ and I feel it’s so relevant as that’s exactly what I’m seeking, the space to breathe in between.
Our arbor is built! We built this out of cedar, and it smelled soooo good when Levi cut the wood. Kiwi and zuchinni vines will grow up the sides soon and create a cool canopy we can rest under for shade in the summer. Over the past couple weeks we have been working hard to plant our mini orchard and garden. We only have a quarter of an acre here, but we want to squeeze in all of the vegetation we can!
Here is the master list of everything we have planted since we’ve moved in!
Soon we will plant our tomatoes, basil, peppers, butternut squash, beets, and zucchini!
What calling has been tugging on your heart lately?
What do you think of this poem? Qué pensás de este poema?
деревья облака примеряют, насыщают их ароматом медовым и осыпаются снегопадами. только под ногами не хрустит и совсем не тает.
It&#039;s hard to get away from the farm but sometimes a step back is necessary in order to breathe, assess &amp; reassess, and gain new pespectives. The weather was so beautiful today that this is exactly what we did : went to the coast which is only a short drive away and came back later feeling happy &amp; refreshed 😎😁 What do you do when you need to step back from work or everyday life? And does anyone else know this part of the coast path near Hope Cove? .
Pour nous, prendre du repos et du recul nécessite de quitter la ferme, même sans forcément aller bien loin ; vu le temps magnifique aujourd’hui c&#039;est exactement ce que nous avons fait en allant nous promener sur la côte 😎😁 Et vous, que faites vous quand vous avez besoin de recul dans votre boulot ou votre vie?