“From the end spring new beginnings” – Pliny the Elder Project 365: #263 So, the end of another big year is over for us. In one breath, 2015 has flown, but in another it seems to have taken so long! Hopefully the with the end of the year, we can look forward to being settled…
Day 262: Carrying our roots
“You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow” – Henning Mankell Project 265: #262 With all the forests around, there are obviously thousands of trees. Most of these trees seem to have fairly shallow roots, and with high winds and stormy weather, the trees…
Day 261: First snow of winter
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?” – J.B. Priestley Project 365: # 261 At last (although,…
Day 260: Less trodden paths
“There are many paths but only one journey” – Naomi Judd Project 365: #260 When out for a run, I was trying to follow the path along the edge of the river, but kept losing my way as the path was covered in leaf debris, and not having been there very often, I did not…
Day 259: History all around us
“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies” – Alexis de Tocqueville Project 365: #259 Wherever you go here, you can feel the history. These were the supporting walls of a bridge over India Brook. We can imagine the history and what it must have been like over…