Tag: forest

  • Mawddach Residency – DAY 10

    Mawddach Residency – DAY 10

    Today my alarm went off in the middle of the night. But it wasn’t the middle of the night it was swimming time. Straight into costume and towel poncho, swim shoes on, down to the beach. It was still mostly black, the water splashed with light, the sky faintly bluer than the water. We waded…

  • Mawddach Residency – DAY 9

    Mawddach Residency – DAY 9

    Today I woke at 5.45 because that was the time of the tide. But it was still black outside and rain was battering down. My bed was cozy and I rolled over, went back to sleep. The rest of the day it rained. The sky was thick with cloud, the mountains disappearing, shadows of grey,…

  • Mawddach Residency – DAY 8

    Mawddach Residency – DAY 8

    This morning the world behind the window went monochrome, the clouds gathering dark in the corners then blowing to fill the sky. Cat came in from sketching and the rain started; heavy, blurring, hailstones whipping the glass. The dark clouds were gone, only grey in their place. The mountains were swallowed by mist, the estuary…

  • 7/11/22 – Water like Guiness

    7/11/22 – Water like Guiness

    Last week my brain was full of words, so I stepped outside for a walk. I was staying halfway up a wooded valley, on a steep hill, and the path I took went down. The sky was blurred out by beach trees and turning leaves and I could hear the river rushing down in the…

  • 22/10/22- Rutting season starts

    22/10/22- Rutting season starts

    A week ago I went for a walk in the woods. Not my local woods, but the woods of a big old country house I used to visit as a child. There were deer there, casually clustering under oak trees near the car park, where people gather at a distance to take photos, sometimes getting…