one last song on the long wires before flight *** Two telephone wires, like lines of a musical stave, stretch across a mottled cloudy...

the ability to seed from a crack in stone the urban invader of abandoned buildings inhabits its name *** A brightly coloured peacock...

someone came in the night painting poppies once again *** From a low angle, looking into a field of green and browning barley, under a...

amongst constellations the floating world holds a star *** Looking down on the surface of the lily pond outside of Inverleith House in...

if colours could talk what would they say? *** Patch of coastal scrubland. On the left, a couple of yellow lichen encrusted stones are...

over the edge a cascade of fallen stars *** A cascade of the yellow stars of biting stonecrop falling down old stone walls. np: Bill...

sunlit tipping points *** Small growth of ditrichum moss on top of a lichen crusted rock wall. Sunlight is falling on the tiny curved...

always a cheering sight when the blossom returns & ‘pops’ *** Hanging strands of cherry plum blossom, set against a rustic stone wall....

stilled life small worlds a pause between forms *** Frozen water gathered at the side of an agricultural field. Amongst the frozen ice...

old glass — sun pools of winter music *** Winter sun filtering through old glass, projecting on to a light yellow wall. Silhouette is...

cracked actor: erratic circles of the wandering line *** Frozen puddle on hard brown earth. A single cracked line in the ice has traced a...

sink and fizzle out the day yet, a small stretch of the light (on the day of the winter solstice) *** Flare of the setting sun, on the...

fallen / found or the festive morning after *** Sprig of cotoneaster, with red berries, lying on top of a moss-furred surface. np: Taylor...

back to the essence of the line *** Detail of a denuded blackthorn hedge reduced to a series of black lines. np: Maria W Horn & Vilhelm...

Light diffused by a night light in a small glass holder. A storm outside rattles the windows. np: Espen Lund — Speak Into His Good Eye

there are days when it is enough to walk through a stony pasture Jurg Frey *** Rocky coastline at low tide. Last vestiges of recent...

pipe dream of the contemplative corvid awaiting snow *** Crow sitting on a sea wall, looking out over the River Forth. West Lothian is...

vibrant matter matters *** Slender branch of yellow lichen-encrusted sycamore extending horizontally. Several vertical spurs continue to...

to hold the sky as substance *** Hand holding up a circle of frozen ice to a blue, cloud-streaked sky. The ice was removed from a frozen...

step into a morning that seals the world behind *** Tangled limbs and branches of a skeletal ash tree extend into the top of the frame. A...