Heroes Not Zombies

Here it is….

and now it’s gone….

There’s something very beautiful about these delicate wind-borne seeds. I watched two of them today, firmly entangled with each other, floating high up over the tall pine trees, sailing across the deep blue of the sky to……well, who knows where?
And will this seed fall on fertile ground? And will it push through the soil to become another…….what kind of plant is this? Can you tell? Just from looking at this seed?

I found myself thinking, here it is, the start of another cycle of growth. But then, is it? Is it the start? How do you find the beginning of a cycle?

While you think about that, here’s another one to look at. Isn’t it just absolutely amazing?

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For weeks, there’s been typically little rain in Provence, so now the hillside which is usually a grassy green under the pine trees has become hard and dusty and brown.

But look at this! Right out of the ground, pushing up through the dead, dry pine needles, new, green life!

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I went to a concert the other evening and the sun was low in the sky as everyone headed home. I was struck by how the rays of light mingled between the trees and the dusty air of the hot, dry path, but once I got home, I was especially pleased that, in this photo, the strongest beam of light was shining on two people holding hands.

I like that

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What’s the link between bubbles and happiness?

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like it says at the top of my front page – becoming not being……

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look closer……

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Wow! Look at the sky! It’s like right there in the middle of the heavy grey rainclouds a heartshaped clearing appears enticing us to look beyond.

It reminded me of the old woodcut by Flammarion, where man pokes his head through a gap in the firmament and gazes on the cosmos beyond –

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I love how light on water constantly changes. As the clouds move across the face of the sun, or the sun’s rays flicker through the leaves of the trees, flashes of colour and light dance on the surface of the water. If the water is flowing over rocks of different colour, the show is just amazing. Here’s what I saw as I stood upstream and looked down through a little stone bridge.

The water flowing down from the falls, was richly peaty, which added another range of colour entirely.

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