My Berghaus rucksack
Short trip away… I’ve used this same rucksack for every trip since 1986! Greenland, Iceland, Europe, North America, South America… and today just a couple of hundred miles up the motorway. Great rucksack.
Small summer “fair weather” cumulus clouds over a rural landscape.
The sky is beginning to look as though it thinks it’s summer. My sky today. Fair weather cumulus.
#SkySky #sky #clouds #Cheshire #countryside
Bits the collie dog sleeping with his head on Mugly the cat.
“Does your dog get on ok with the cats?”
#dog #collie #cat #dogsky #catsky
Tree silhouetted against a morning sky.
Good morning from Marbury. A bright, frosty morning.
The geographer rhymes with the painter
Yes... in a way (my way of doing them!) they boil down to basically the same thing!
The actual cover
The bit of the painting we used for the cover
The whole painting
In the end the publisher preferred this one as the cover painting. I wondered if it was a bit garish, but I was so pleased that they (and my co-author) let me do the cover image myself that I didn't argue too much! Here: the actual cover, the bit of the painting that we used, and the whole painting.
Painting by Peter G Knight of a view looking out to sea. It's in landscape format. The lower part is green and blue, the upper part grey and blue, with a horizon about 1/3 of the way up the board that might be marked by a thin strip of land... so perhaps we aren't looking out to sea at all, but back at the land. Are we arriving or setting off? Who knows any of these sorts of things. It's all a bit messy and fuzzy. Yes, I'm talking about the painting again now.
Looking through some of my old paintings. I like this one, looking out to sea. #Painting #Art #Landscape #Seascape This was one of the candidates for the cover image of my "How to do your dissertation..." textbook.
I'm pleased if you liked it!
I "stole" the idea from austinkleon.bsky.social years ago and used it a lot in teaching undergraduates to see that there were different ways of making choices about what to notice in a text, or a landscape.
Perhaps somebody should point out to them that a lot of glaciers are aging pretty fast right now!
Thank you... I "stole" it from austinkleon.bsky.social years ago and used it a lot in teaching undergraduates to see that there were different ways of making choices about what to notice in a text, or a landscape.
Compared with today I feel as though I grew up in a golden age of enlightenment. Perhaps it was different here from there, but I grew up in a world where wisdom , honesty and kindness were looked on as strengths and worthwhile goals.
We are falling backwards to the dark ages.
I have a whole bookfull where that came from...
#poems #poetry #blackout #redacted #writing
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Imagine a ship
with a civilized man
lost in exile, in doubt.
And think of the savagery
in the hearts of men.
And the abomination - the hate.
If there are blanks, you don't have all the maps!
"Adieu" is the only word left standing from a page of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".
OK:
I loved this poem
It justified my compulsion
for travel
Which I did and
Discovered the blank
Spaces on a
Colonizer’s map were
Somebody’s ancestral lands
No. Too good. Stop.
This is my place, where the blank spot on the map holds me:
It's not all sunrises and bird song, is it?
A page from "Heart of Darkness, with all the text blacked out except for scattered words that read: that river was the farthest point of my experience Then I got a passion for maps and all the glories of blank spaces on the earth I would go there. The blank space.
Blackout Poem (original text Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness). #poem #poetry #art #writing #redacted
that river was the farthest point of my experience
Then I got a passion for maps
and all the glories of blank spaces on the earth
I would go there.
The blank space.
So, either you’ve been up all night or you’re catering to a different time zone than mine… your “good night” time is getting-up time here!
Good morning from Marbury. How’s your day looking?
Part of a painting by me, of a landscape drawn in the style of a (series of) chess board(s) with chess pieces as characters engaged in a sort of medieval trench warfare.
I got over my "perspective" period years ago with my chessboard battlefield paintings!
Yes, absolutely... I meant if I change the viewpoint 'll have to move the house into the second view to make the painting!
Along the lane before dawn… a dark shot of a narrow lane with dark hedgerows and a dark silhouette of a tree. 🌳
Perhaps I wasn’t paying attention and missed someone, but unusually the #firstbirdofmyday today was an assertive song thrush declaring that the field was hers, and the hedges, and the stream, and the lane and all the sky up to the height of the clouds. All of it. All hers, sweetie.
Mallard parents and ducklings.
First ducklings of the year. Good morning from Marbury.
Actually I think the view looking the other way is better… although I might have to move that house!
A landscape of diagonal swaths (is that a word) and little blocks. Looking across the canal and a field towards a house on the horizon.
I used to paint. Not so much for years and years now. But there is something about this view, which I see every morning, that makes me think about it again.
