Monochrome is magic

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness isyour candle. Your boundaries are your quest”– Rumi Who would ever think that the absence of colour could tell such stories! I have submitted On the Estuary for Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness this week Niamh’s evening path , the clearing and Niamh herself are photos taken with an infra red…

Tales of the Tuatha ( chapter 14 of the keep it sweet and short tales)

The Tree Dragon’s Eye The sky kept changing, changing! Was Aine angry with her? The tree dragon menaced.  “Well!” he demanded, “what of my payment?” Looking up, she saw a single shining sphere gazing at her through the foliage. With an astonished recognition she replied, “Why sir, you already have my payment! The eye you possess is one…

gratitude and old farmhouses

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. ~Rumi I much appreciated that Michelle at  WordPress  Hot off the Press   in”Around the World in Ten Photos” included my “Lagoon of the bonny swans”(from Tea time at the castle).   Beautiful photos all, including those of my friends Laura Macky and Mark Simms. For…

Tea time at the castle (and a little local history)

“No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.“- Rumi This castle was  built in 1906-07 by the son of Coal Baron Robert Dunsmuir, who made his fortune on Vancouver Island in the late 1800’s. Robert Dunsmuir first built Craigdarroch…

Little splendours in the grass and marshland

Joyful sunshine every other day or so!! It was warm enough to lie down here and watch the clouds skimming by overhead.    An attempt at wildlife photography!!  Not my expertise, but while out walking by the beach I spotted a black Oystercatcher on the rocks in the cove and along the marsh pond an amorous…

Philosophical Wax

Days of Om and music singing bowls and didgeridoos and a little rain          The dance I love sunrise tai chi when we don’t have rain! During the year the sun appears to move along the eastern horizon  all the way over to Mt. Tolmie in Saanich and back again to the Esquimalt hills. Mother earth not only spins…

Tales of the Tuatha (Chapter 13 of the keep it sweet and short tales)

Beyond the dragon’s toll house     Niamh saw a dragon and tree intertwined. They seemed to be attached to the same clawed root.   ” You are far from the mound, Tuatha maid.” snarled the creature, “What do you seek?”  I seek a spring, replied Niamh, not wanting to tell him of her lost…

Spellbound in the Spectrum

More island wanderings (in infrared) Meet me in that place of light and shadow. I am strolling there, Between dreams, and waking   And  I don’t forget my Canon that started me onto all this visual alchemy:               These does were as surprised to see me as I was…