It’s funny how coincidence works. One of my favorite blogs disappeared a year ago and, searching for it, I came to another blogger’s site, and that blogger has now become my friend. She is the sweet, gentle-hearted Vicki of 2bagsfull.
I'm not sure I've ever shown you this image. For a few years now I've been obsessed with reproducing Vanitas in my photography. Vanitas are a type of symbolic work describing the transient nature of life. The word takes a
Last night, as I was walking across the back garden, I heard a small rustling noise at the foot of the basement stairs. There was a weak little finch in the leaves. I thought it was a good thing I
A little Sunday walk on the beach with C in the cool light of this wintery afternoon.
Yesterday morning I woke up in my English home. This morning I woke up in my Vancouver home. I threw the curtains open and the first oblique rays of the winter sun hit the mantelpiece and this little gift from a
There is an anticipation in a New Year’s morning. Will the sunrise be the start of a fulfilled promise from the night before? High winds, leaden skies and bucketing rain for weeks on end and now
January 6th. Anyone ever heard of this: my Czech grandmother always insisted that Christmas decorations stay up till Jan. 6th, the feast of the three kings, the 12th day of Christmas. My British grandmother thought it was silly, but I loved my
Driving back from Oxford over the Thames, beside the Windrush and down to the village, you might be excused for thinking you’re in the Lake District instead of Oxfordshire! Honestly rain! Enough already. There has been so much rain here
This Christmas eve I wish you a lovely hot bubble bath, Some peaceful time with your most treasured books, The best carols and brightest candles to light up the night, And most importantly, I wish you a heart full of happy, rich, magical
It’s been a blustery night last night and the wind rattled my little bedroom window so much that I closed it in the middle of the night. I wonder how similar the West Coast wind storms are to Oxfordshire