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Welcome to the clouds

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,  From the seas and the streams;  I bear light shade for the leaves when laid  In their noonday dreams.  – from The […]

Jolly holly tree

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, … Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly. […]

Varied stages of TLC in Havana

A quiet day for putting the washing out to dry, but it’s great to see Havana’s talent in displaying decay and revival, close to each other and in such an […]

Exiled

It wav’d not thro’ an Eastern sky, Beside a fount of Araby; It was not fann’d by southern breeze In some green isle of Indian seas, … But fair the exil’d […]