…within our labyrinth on our dark mountain. – David Jones, ‘The Tutelar of the Place’
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Mountains Green and Pleasant Pastures… and Mwd
Bwrw hen wragedd y ffyn – Welsh proverb [it’s raining old wives and walking sticks]
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Et In Arcadia Sumus
Row, row, row your boat, / Gently down the stream, / Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, / Life is but a dream! – Traditional
Rest Day Photo Essay
A Typology of Gate Fastenings
Farewell to the South
… The north polar star, which keeps its place, and all the stars turn towards it. – Confucius
Waterland and Big Skies
Water, water everywhere… – S T Coleridge, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’
Head up and looking around
What is this life, if, full of care, / There is no time to stand and stare? – Wm. Henry Davies, ‘poet of the tramps’
Exmoor and beyond
Sumer is icumen in, / Lhude sing cuccu! – Mid-13th century round in Wessex dialect
A May Day Hop up onto Exmoor
Now is the month of Maying, / When merry lads are playing, / Upon the greeny grass, / Each with his merry lass – Traditional
Saltmarsh
Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea. – Sidney Lanier
Walking The Landscape 