Square challenges

Washing lines

It’s Monday, and what could I do but share a washing line. Siracusa, Sicily, September 2021 – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 4 October 2021 Posted as part of Becky’s PastSquares […]

-Sicily

An aristocratic courtyard

This attractive courtyard caught my attention as I wandered the streets of Ortigia. And when I discovered its current role, a cocktail bar, I was even more attracted. Cortile Verga, […]

-Sicily

Coming to the point

About a 15 minute walk from the archaeological park in Siracusa, we find we have skipped from 1st century BC to late 1990s AD, with this church that was built […]

-Sicily

Empty squares

It’s the start of a new month of squares with Becky, and for October we are looking back at old themes, old square posts or old memories. My plan is […]

-around Europe

Looking back at square trees

“Hidden, but there, Shadows and fair, But best of all? They were square” I’m not yet ready for the new month of squares, but I thought I’d take a look […]

-Hertfordshire

No man can make a tree (or four)

I kicked off the month of trees with the start of Kilmer’s poem about trees, and am ending with his final lines. … Poems are made by fools like me, […]

-Cornwall

Beach tree

On scorched and conflagrated sands, In sapped and grudging desolation, The solitary Upas stands Grim sentinel of all creation. – from The Upas Tree (Анчар) by Alexander Pushkin read more […]

Square challenges

Walking the pathless woods

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, … I love not man the less, but Nature more, – from Childe Harold’s […]

-Spain

Beneath the jacaranda tree

And the wind blew through the boughs, Of the jacaranda tree. Raining purple like it still does now, – from Underneath The Jacaranda Tree by Juan Olivarez read more Bloom […]

-London

Dreaming of flying away

Palm-tree: single-legged giant, topping other trees, peering at the firmament – It longs to pierce the black cloud-ceiling and fly away, away, … – from Palm Tree by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 […]

-London

2B or not 2B

Said Hamlet to Ophelia, ‘I’ll do a sketch of thee, What kind of pencil shall I use, 2B or not 2B?’ – from Hamlet by Spike Milligan LISTEN here Laurence […]

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Square challenges

Washing lines

An aristocratic courtyard

Coming to the point

Empty squares

Looking back at square trees

No man can make a tree (or four)

Beach tree

Walking the pathless woods

Beneath the jacaranda tree

Dreaming of flying away

2B or not 2B