Open
The Abbey Gateway (built 1365), St Albans, Hertfordshire, November 2020 Welcome to One Word Sunday, and over to all of you to join the challenge with your own open post.To join the […]
Hazy silence
St Albans, Hertfordshire, November 2020 – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 19 September 2021 Posted as part of Silent Sunday …
Far from a normal parking spot
St Albans, Hertfordshire, September 2021(taken and edited on iPhone11) Now over to all of you. Do come and join us in our Saturday six-word musings. I’ll admit that many of […]
Abbey in a haze
A glimpse of the cathedral on a hazy day, St Albans, Hertfordshire, September 2021(taken and edited on iPhone11) – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 5 September 2021 Posted as part of […]
Llama spotted on the River Ver
St Albans, Hertfordshire, July 2021 Now over to all of you. Do come and join us in our Saturday six-word musings. I’ll admit that many of us openly break the […]
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, […]
Slabs of gold and brown
A sleeper, they used to call it— … like coffin lids, those leftover slabs, their new-sawn faces turning gold and brown … – from Sleepers by David Black read more […]
When great trees fall
When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. – from When great trees fall by Maya Angelou […]
Disrobed in an English winter
All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! – from Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) read more Heron Island, St Albans, December 2016 […]
Four Trees
Four Trees — upon a solitary Acre — Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action — Maintain — – from Four Trees upon a solitary acre by Emily Dickinson read […]
The dell’s repose
And the voice of the peaceful valley Mixed with the billow’s song! “Stay in the wood’s embraces! Stay in the dell’s repose!” – from Down in the dell I wandered […]
