Tag: Experience

  • Hedgerows,moonlight and deer on the hoof

    On a perfectly sunny winters day earlier this week, I started my first hedge-laying task of the season. Michael (Fi’s Dad) and I began with work on the hedge that borders his property. Michael had already done a stirling job with son-in-law Andy taking the bulk of the heavy stuff from a line of overgrown…

  • The shadow and the landscape; notes on the nature of experience

    Autumn is the best time to play hide-and-seek: it smudges the edges of the world. The space between the parenthesis of dawn and dusk is barely daylight, more a leaf-strewn, muddy puddle, a tree-bare, bonfire-smoke-poem. The distinction between object and background is confused. A boon to the hider,  but a nightmare for the seeker.  We…