Podcast review – Barry Lopez’ Arctic Dreams
Listening time: 15 minutes. It’s about a quarter of a century since I first read this moving...
Dancing leaves
They do spin and pirouette in a gusty autumn breeze, and I liked this reference to a rag blown in...
Sea-like sound
I like the description of a sound in the trees resembling the sea; land and water confounded.
'There...
Lichen like cracked lacquer
I imagine here the wetted orange lichen that grows flat on rocky surfaces, like tiny star-bursts of gold.
The cow looked at me looking at the cow
Having done this a number of times, I smiled when I read Dorothy's dilemma in passing the cow. They have...
Nature like an athlete
How wonderful to portray nature beefing herself up to wrestle with winter, stripping off all superfluity such as leaves, the...
The impatient shout of a thrush
A few years ago I noted Keats' delight in a thrush in his garden, and so found a kindred...
Tussock-lined tract
What formerly passed for a lawn in our garden is now becoming a wild meadow, notwithstanding its random colonization by...
Green on green
A lovely description and an idyllic image of an English county.
‘Herefordshire is green on green, lichen on old apple...
The moon shone upon the water below
I liked this expansive moon-scape and the detail of Wordworth keeping his curtains open to see it.
'The...
I shall teach the boy…
The Countess of Gormenghast ponders her personal curriculum for her newborn son, after despatching him to a régime of...
The brimming basin of the sea
When I read this description of the sea I thought immediately of the photo you see featured here, which I...
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