The pattern I use for this blog is to post one of my photos then write a few words of reflection. My intention is to make positive waves, to inspire and delight you, to awaken your sense of wonder and to encourage curiosity and care.
Today, I’m starting with a 30 second video I recorded yesterday across the road at the “Source”. Maybe you read how I moved house just before Christmas and that I live in a small hamlet outside the town of Saint Jean d’Angely now. About a couple of hundred metres up the road from me is an ancient spring. The water is the clearest water I’ve ever seen anywhere. There are the remains of a Roman aqueduct here and the site was developed by the commune a few years back to make it an attractive place to walk, sit or have a picnic.
We’re in the middle of the coldest spell I’ve experienced since moving to France seven years ago. The temperature falls to about minus three degrees centigrade overnight and stays there till about noon.
Yesterday afternoon across at the spring I took this little video of the cold, clear water turning to steam as the sun warmed the surface, while the majority of the water tumbled over the edge of the pool, foaming and splashing and gurgling.
I have a fascination for water so to see its flow and movement at the same time as watching its transition from liquid to gaseous phase just delighted me. If ever there was a better metaphor for the constant transformative processes of Life, I don’t know it.
I hope it delights you too (turn up your volume when you play it)
Heroes Not Zombies 
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