Heroes Not Zombies

the colour of the sky, originally uploaded by bobsee.

I swear the colours we see in the sky constantly change and even after days, and weeks, and months and years of skies, we still look up sometimes, and think, WOW, that’s BEAUTIFUL

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the colour of the forest, originally uploaded by bobsee.

I love this kind of forest. It’s a very typical, not man-made, Scottish forest. I love it when the forest floor of ferns turns this amazing coppery brown colour

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the colour of stone, originally uploaded by bobsee.

These stones are only visible when the water level in the stream is low.
I love the greenish blues of some of them in amongst the grey ones

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the colour of water, originally uploaded by bobsee.

This is a waterfall and stream (we call a small stream a “burn” in Scotland) on Skye.
Look at the colours in the water.
Aren’t they lovely?
This photo set me off checking out the colours of different natural phenomena. You’ll find the others in the coming days here under titles “the colour of……”

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Dry stane dyke, originally uploaded by bobsee.

This is what we call a “dry stane dyke” in Scotland. It’s an ancient art and it’s the making of walls with the stones as they are. They aren’t shaped or machined to fit and the art lies in fitting them together without using any cement or mortar to bind them together.
I love their organic uniqueness. They are glorious!
And I love how with time the lichens and the moss soften many of the hard edges and bring the greens and golds and the silvers to the shades of grey.
I love how they weather and how they fit so perfectly well into the fields.

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leaf, originally uploaded by bobsee.

Today in the UK, it’s Leaf Sunday. Apparently this is THE day when the leaves of autumn are supposed to look their most colourful. If you’d like a map of where in the UK to go ‘leaf peeping‘ then here’s one here.

This time of year always reminds me of a thing John Peel once told about on his radio show years and years ago. He suggested a nice thing to do at this time of year might be to go out and pick up a leaf that had fallen from the trees and write on the leaf the word “Hello” with black marker pen. Then someone walking along might see the leaf, pick it up and see the “Hello” and their day might be a better day. I know, sounds kinda ridiculous, doesn’t it? But go on, try it! And if you pick up any leaves with “Hello” on them, tell me about it, will you?

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