shortest day longest night an iridescent bow — a spill towards solstice *** A hint of nacreous cloud layers over the Firth of Forth...

Latent energy lines of a denuded blackthorn hedge. A skeletal entwining of Pollock black twig energy against light filled blue sky. ***...

How easily a world made strange ... *** Jelly ear fungus growing on a dead elder tree with a mottled green trunk. Scarecrow figure in a...

Days of dank perpetual rain, sodden fields transformed into the opening scenes of Béla Tarr's Sátántangó. *** Mud brown water pooling in...

a quietening of the edge *** Snow covered harbour wall, looking down on moving, tidal water. Some vegetation is growing out from the bank...

objects made strange by snow np: Okkyung Lee — then, there

holding almost a memory *** Skeletal head of cow parsley, holding a residual covering of snow, as a rapid thaw is underway. np: Jane...

Serrated edge detail of a green stinging nettle leaf, surrounded by white, iced-over snow. np: Food — Quiet Inlet

Coastal shoreline after a fall of snow. Sun is bright in the sky, shining through milky clouds. A white boat with three portholes, on the...

A trio of slender grasses, standing upright in a triangular formation, surrounded by unblemished crisp snow. np: James Tenney — Diaphonic...

slow moving lines in winter light *** Backlit lines of skeletal tree branches against a winter sun, from a high elevation, overlooking...

and with the blink of an eye — snow sun skimming *** From a snow covered foreshore looking out over a calm River Forth under a snow-laden...

fallen to earth a frozen galaxy *** Rainwater that has fallen and frozen in a circular, porcelain bird bath. A portal to the universe....

wind gathered tidal drift line *** A line of leaves in various colours, tidal drifting on the surface of the River Forth np: Jamie Branch...

tuning in through copper blue *** Woodland walk through fallen brown eaves from denuded beech trees. An envelope of bright blue sky...

feral snapdragon disrupting the autumnal colourfield *** Bright pink rain-spattered snapdragon, growing out from an old stone wall. np:...

autumn diptych in two movements fast ______ slow *** Beech hedge in autumn colours of golden brown, yellow and fading green, under a fast...

... and whilst tree leaves colour-fill and fall, the budding moons of ivy orbit the source *** Buds of ivy, blooming green against the...

underfoot, sound walk scrunch, through the changing colourfield *** A path through, bare, denuded trees. The ground is covered with...

... and to catch the last flaring before the fall ~~~ Sunlight falling on a witch-hazel leaf that has turned from green to golden brown....