Pause For Thought
The lighthouse at Talacre has always been a great location to visit. There are so many compositions to choose from, admittedly most include a lighthouse, but the pools and the sand topography around it are always different at low tide after the waves have made their adjustments. I’m not at all impatient about this essential lockdown but it will be so nice to be able to visit it once again.
This enforced time at home has been good for the garden as I have somewhat neglected it over the last few years, taking solace in the notion of a ‘wild garden’. The nettles and brambles have loved it! So the recent weeks have seen it emerge with a ‘short back and sides’. I am so thankful that I even have a garden and I feel for those people who are not so fortunate.
The squirrels are great distributors of the acorns and I get lots of oak seedlings popping up. These would normally be pulled out, but I spotted one the other day and had the idea of the ‘Corona Oak’.
So, I dug it out, potted it up and I will nurture and train it into a ‘standard’ tree (like I know what I'm talking about) and keep it as a reminder of these difficult times that we are currently living through. This is obviously a long-term project although oak saplings will grow pretty quickly in the first few years. Maybe I will post an annual picture of it. I will attach an image of it to this ramble later.
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I send my best wishes to you all. I hope that you are keeping safe and well, and coping with this difficult time, mentally as well as physically. X
Pause For Thought
The lighthouse at Talacre has always been a great location to visit. There are so many compositions to choose from, admittedly most include a lighthouse, but the pools and the sand topography around it are always different at low tide after the waves have made their adjustments. I’m not at all impatient about this essential lockdown but it will be so nice to be able to visit it once again.
This enforced time at home has been good for the garden as I have somewhat neglected it over the last few years, taking solace in the notion of a ‘wild garden’. The nettles and brambles have loved it! So the recent weeks have seen it emerge with a ‘short back and sides’. I am so thankful that I even have a garden and I feel for those people who are not so fortunate.
The squirrels are great distributors of the acorns and I get lots of oak seedlings popping up. These would normally be pulled out, but I spotted one the other day and had the idea of the ‘Corona Oak’.
So, I dug it out, potted it up and I will nurture and train it into a ‘standard’ tree (like I know what I'm talking about) and keep it as a reminder of these difficult times that we are currently living through. This is obviously a long-term project although oak saplings will grow pretty quickly in the first few years. Maybe I will post an annual picture of it. I will attach an image of it to this ramble later.
www.flickr.com/photos/markrd5/49829787243/in/photostream/
I send my best wishes to you all. I hope that you are keeping safe and well, and coping with this difficult time, mentally as well as physically. X