September

August - cheers!

July 2012

June, sunny

In the rain I crossed this field, golden-shod.

The cockerel with part of his harem.

Our gentlemanly cockerel. Only when the hens have taken their fill will he step forward to eat. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Missie, the stray who moved in.

Missie

June, overcast.

Honeysuckle

Eric looks down from his rooftop perch.

                       Radnorshire/Herefordshire border.

Although it's been raining a great deal recently, I still enjoy going out. Practically everywhere I look there are opportunities for taking pictures of stunning scenery - or little vignettes of some small area.
And I LOVE clouds.

Frost

Winter

Christmas tree.

Beyond,

 apple baubles hang,

frost-sugared.

Brave little flowers

Elder tree, back field. Summer 2011.

Ludlow on a Thursday in January.

(Click on this to see a larger size.)

Stories from Home

This time I have now I fill

with careful listening –

my heart’s knock against the table,

the paper’s sigh, its soft harmonic rasp

beneath my hand.

There is the rook, a distant farmer’s call.

There is the solitary buzzard’s high beseeching whistle.

There, last autumn’s leaves chafe the summer twigs.

There are the dogs across the valley

in their prison-barn.

There is the recurrent bee, its hesitant buzz distinct now

from the fly’s nasal careering.

There is the aeroplane, its distant growl not coarse like the tractor

three dry fields away.

There are the sheep, moaning, like catarrhal old men.

A pheasant proclaims in guttural contralto

that it lives

in Cilybyddar Woods.

There are no soliloquies from the songbirds here in August -

their intricate springtime questions

have long been answered.

And there’s the house -

steadfast here since Owain was a boy -

creaking and snapping its cladding in the sun,

reeking of hot wood and

willing to share the pleasures of cool,

dark rooms.

Wall

Woodland

News from Scotland

Having heard from a friend in Scotland that he'd enjoyed seeing the photographs on my blog, it has encouraged me to continue displaying them. I was tending to lose heart not having had many comments - so, thanks very much G! xx

Crow

The Lane