Expansion

Expansion

Spring's
energy rises
into fresh renewals.

Each
seed explodes
slowly to speed.

Viladrau. April 2019

Viladrau

Slowing into a rural life style—to the extent we can, as visitors—we begin the first mountain walk of our stay. Not every sign post meets our approval, in the heat of a sunny spring day. Yon tree is not the tree depicted on this brochure, a problem sure to get my coat off, my sleeves imagined rolled. The sensation then returns—smallness in relation. Viladrau is renowned for its mineral springs. And its natural beauty. In the distance the mountain grows, and an ease to pause flows more easily in the visitors’ step. Run down weathered doors return the occasional walker to the beaten path. Eyes now keener toward the lichen and the drop.

Mediterranean scrubland—

and the branch tip

through rubble walls. 

Spring

On the subject of walls (and of course flowers)......

Study for seated nude

Visual poetry for World Poetry Day 2019... Study 1 (charcoal on paper)

smoky sky

smoky sky

a gull planes over the courtyard

circles upward to a lightpost perch

down again rousing two pigeons

green indigo red—expressionistically

could you remember a trilobite pal

sounding metallic sides of a delivery cart

(work in progress.....)

rubble walls

Some views of unmortared agro walls between Vilanova i la Geltrú and Sitges. (About an hour's train journey south of Barcelona.)

New & Old

Two photos previously published here (20 July 2015). I'm going through some of the material put up here and on Google Plus and elsewhere. Plus is apparently closing down in April and I've begun to post on MeWe as an alternative site. Here as well of course. Anyway, some news this chilly February morn.........