Friday, 21 October 2011

A wee escape to the hut...

 Some recent pictures from my wee world... (click to enlarge)
 



















Thank you for sweet words!  I have recovered a wee bit from my ordeal.  I get down about the people and animals worse off than me (I'm no rich in the slightest, i mean being murdered and the world getting destroyed by man...heavy now...) but things have been tough in my wee world, but as I quoted last time, Bob Dylan's granny saying that everyone is going through hard things and I do appreciate that!  And I don't wish to linger in the gutter of my mind, I want to climb to great heights!  I can not help others if I am not strong and healthy in body and mind!  So my mission is to become superhuman! My wee mither took me away to have some nice recovery time by the sea at her friend's 'hut', she was staying there with her/our cat friend.  I try and not be a jealous person but I wish I lived by the sea!  A council estate is so grey and lifeless in comparison!  One day!  Anyhoo, Just two days saw stormy weather to glorious sunshine!  Of course, continuously freezing!  Scotland in October!  I read (Oh Sweet John Muir!), I took some pictures, bird watched, ate mama's cooking, spied at life in rock pools, played with the cat, and I wrote a little spraff...

The houses, fields, woods and steeples of the  coastline across the sea whispered between a layer of misty white.  The spray of the waves, crashing forwards, a mass of bright jagged arms racing with each gust of wind in the bitterly cold dark dreary blue.  Before long my tiny cold hands were wet from the spray crashing against the rocks, where i sat on my side of the water, and I could no longer hold onto the binoculars for fear of each finger snapping off from the baltic weather of my homeland. Hard to see the birds in such unforgiving winds, my long hair blinding me, single threads being twisted together and hurled around, constantly thrust stingingly into my eyes and gagingly into my mouth!  I curse my morning self for not tying Braids! The odd wader brave to bear the sea's wicked temper, blowing around like a sma wee feather!  I gaze at the rock with it's glittering of birds surround, the lighthouse and glistening white, holding onto my hat.  The pools I sit by hide worlds of sma.  I spy a wee hermit, fish, crab and sea anenomie in seaweeds tangled and caught on the barnacles and harsh rough but smooth battered surface.  The sma water forests so alien, black spider trees and deepest hearts maroon and green lasagna slithers shadow other creatures and wee skeletons.  A walk up across the moving sweeping sands, like spirits whirling towards the house. In for some tea and freshly baked scones and for the night's fire, lay out to dry our collection of twigs and wee logs.

Enjoy your weekend! x

Saturday, 8 October 2011

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care

Some recent pictures from our wee world...









































On a long winded bus journey I read Bob Dylan's words from his Grandmother, "Happiness isn't on the road to anything. Happiness is the road" and "Be kind because everyone you'll ever meet is fighting a hard battle." These ring true and it is something I wish everyone would always contemplate when in a self-absorbed fit of anger or depression or even when feeling on top of the world... What wonderful quotes! 

And the above title rings true too, thanks to my mither and Shakespeare for that one!  I have had trouble sleeping but last night had the most wonderful long sleep and ach did I have vivid dreams! I sketched a few things and maybe have found a key to help me get back on my old track with my photography projects which have dwindled and have been on pause for way too long now... 

I have a very stressful thing in my personal life going on (which I do not wish to blog about!) along with a much feared event approaching that tangles me on the inside.... but only a few more tormenting days left... after that I hope that I can rebuild my brain a little and get back on the track I wish to be on! 

These pictures are of a lovely place we cycle along near our home. It used to be a railway track and this old shelter was hidden for so long under lush greens! There are men in florescent coats measuring the place with instruments and things and I hope it will not get torn down! We thought we better picture it on one of our cycles, so we did!  And I share but a few!

Here's hoping for another good night's sleep tonight for me and of course for you too! x