Walking Woods

Photographs taken in South Cambridgeshire, October 2022.

Poem from the poetry collection Cats and Other Myths by J.S.Watts (published by Lapwing Publications 2011)

Writing Woods

She is lucid

Like a clear glass bowl of fresh water

In sunlight

When she speaks rivers

 

Chlorophyll flows brightly in her veins

And through her fingertips

Like lit green fuses

As she exhales grass

 

Words drop from her pen

Like the rain’s tears

And a soft wind calms anxious hedgerows

With promises of spring

When she writes woods

 

But now I am just writing

Her writing woods

And you are reading

Me writing her writing

As the trees grow further and further back

And the sky mirror becomes clouded

Because we bind ourselves in words

That stop the leaves from falling

Or growing either

                                                           

                                                                J.S. Watts

Constitutional Highlights - End of October

 

And yet again in reverse order (gee, thanks Blogger) photos from my regular walks. These were taken from the end of October back towards the middle of the month. So, while the photos grow progressively sunnier, the month did not.

The walking buddy leads the way

For the following photos, I crossed over into North Hertfordshire and went up onto Therfield Heath again

And now we are back (or actually beginning) in South Cambridgeshire