Seafields

 

An August 15, 2015 photo (below) titled Seafields, taken at the Giant’s Causeway, Ireland. That is the date it was first published on this blog. Once it becomes safe to do so I want to go back to this amazing place.

 Meanwhile, it is at least considered safe now for us to move around our own county (comarca). So new views of the Mediterranean coast will be possible again, something I’ve also greatly missed during these months. I’ve had my first vaccination dose with the Pfizer vaccine and I am scheduled for the second in May.

 Yesterday we walked up to the Park Güell, extending the tour to keep from arriving too early at the restaurant for lunch. We ended up walking more than 12 kilometers in the end. Happy to be in shape at least for slopes that aren’t very steep. Also something to be said, I think, for a gentle stroll on level ground…

World Book Day 2021

 

 Running words through your fingers, as Book Day takes the torch from Earth Day:

“Another sort of reading matches better with the morning hours. This is not the time for foraging and rummaging, for half-closed eyes and gliding voyages. We want something that has been shaped and clarified, cut to catch the light, hard as gem or rock with the seal of human experience in it, and yet sheltering as in a clear gem the flame which burns now so high and now sinks so low in our own hearts. We want what is timeless and contemporary. But one might exhaust all images, and run words through one’s fingers like water and yet not say why it is that on such a morning one wakes with a desire for poetry.” Virginia Woolf, from her essay “Reading.”

Happy World Book Day to All!

Viladrau

Planning a new trip.....Viladrau flowers seen (from notes) Dandelions in seed and flowering; nipplewort; violets; something like coltsfoot. Some tiny white flowers. Also some beautiful scrubland with Spanish broom and what I think is gorse. Trees to revisit: Holm oak, cork oak, innumerable firs, pines, birch, hazel. 

Hoping the sunny weather holds (and pandemic restrictions permit travel).......

Happy world poetry day

 May poetic creation in all its many forms continue to shine a light.

Glass vase in sunlight

 

 

 

Glass vase in sunlight

 

I can’t stop looking at the long stemmed rose we bought,

the petals so red against the green leaves.

expansion

 

expansion 

down binder steam, cloud,

today shouts powder dram,

musician-bright wedge

in steam panels—chipped

yellow rust, finely minnow.

akimbo, tick tock way

chaff fast one two or

Walking the Parc Güell

 

Walking the Parc Güell

 A few of the photos I took a couple of weeks ago, on a walk through Antoni Gaudí’s beautiful park. The first one shows the living stone of the Carmel Hill, where the park is located. Then more of this metamorphic rock covered with lichen. Finally, a third pic showing a stairway leading up to columns using Gaudí’s system of building---derived more from Nature, less from French curves and ruled lines. However, my inexpert thoughts are indebted to Scott Engering’s blog, The Language of Stone at

https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=uhf_2013

and to Marc Pantano’s article “Reading Gaudí’s book of nature: Reconsidering the peripheral perception of proto-environmental architecture” at

https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=uhf_2013

My pictures:

 

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