Heard (and maybe glimpsed) my second cuckoo yesterday at Tregeseal stone circle, by St Just. Surprising, given the fierce easterly.

Vivid memories of thrilling, frightening tutorials: "What /precisely/ do you mean?" and "Define your terms!"
Seems only yesterday, but, in truth, decades 😏

Magical! 😍

Heard my first cuckoo yesterday on Sancreed Beacon, near Penzance 😃

I'm very attracted by these monoprint / collages! I can see elements of the Penwith landscape which I like so much.
I visited Morvah yesterday, but sadly I had missed your exhibition. I'm staying in St Just for a few days and wondered if there was anywhere nearby that I could see some of your work?

Ah, the desert of Wales! These are on the road between Abergwesn and Tregaron, with a visit to the isolated chapel of Soar y Mynydd, the ascent of the Devil's Staircase and paying my respects to the Loneliest Phone Box.

Sunshine And Showers. 16°C and a brisk Southerly. Hares on the bank.

Sunshine And Showers. 16°C and a brisk Southerly. Hares on the bank.

Last week I was lucky a venue I wanted to visit was closed - I ended up here instead. Yes, it's a lovely view of Porth Neigwl, Hell's Mouth, North Wales, but watch as the cottage is revealed - you are seeing where poet @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social & his artist wife Elsi Eldridge lived in retirement.

More everyday miracles 😍 Very welcome in these times 🐝

It's always an amazement to me that some of the smallest birds have the greatest and sweetest of voices 🥰 My highlight today was a hedge filled with blackcap song on The Downs in Bristol.

Each performance was impressive, but at the end of the 15th, there was simply a prolonged silence and (for me) an intense sense of having shared, with both the performers and the audience, the trajectory of his interior life. And the silence - we knew where he'd reached and we could not follow.
2/2

Ooh, lucky you .. much envy! A full cycle of anything can be a truly significant experience.
The Brodsky played the DSCH quartets in Bristol c. ten years ago, two three at a time, in a number of venues, including St George's. 1/2

Oh my, yes!! 😱

That resonates! "Late" Sibelius is stimulatingly revolutionary - "Tapiola" was my equivalent.
I like to imagine the 8th would have been a 45m super-Tapio. Maybe just as well it remains a few ambiguous fragments, no possibility of disappointment!
(Gratuitous Gallen-Kallela forest attached.)

The shops have treats for him behind their counters - no wonder he does his patrols! 😉
In my time here, there have been a number of cathedral cats: Louie the ginger gentleman, Pangur Ban (who wasn't white), to name two. A fine tradition 😸

There is a Boris in Wells, he's the ginger cat who patrols the streets and shops down the end of the High Street. I usually meet him lounging in / on St Cuthbert Street.

Rooks at Holford doing noisy, rooky things.
#spring #quantocks #rooks #rookery

Glorious outing on the Quantocks 🌞 Woods, blossom, bees, rooks, skylarks, buzzards, lambs. Views (just) of the Mumbles, Bannau Brycheiniog and the Skirrid. Diminutive ships in the Bristol Channel, probably awaiting the tide to proceed up to Avonmouth.
#spring #quantocks

The River Yeo, which flows through Yeovil, is also known as the Ivel, an anagram of "evil". Coincidence? You decide .. 😉

Things To Do on a Wintry Sunday No.2: I came home and found Mr. Monkey comforting himself by paddling and chewing his favourite blanket.
Then he clambered on top of me, and we had a lengthy nuzzling bout. Two days of stubble is an acceptable substitute for another cat's tongue! 😻

Let's play a game

Your pet gets chosen to be immortalised on a banknote

Which picture are you submitting?

Great Streets of silence led away To Neighborhoods of Pause - Here was no Notice - no Dissent No Universe - no Laws - By Clocks, ’Twas Morning, and for Night The Bells at Distance called - But Epoch had no basis here For Period exhaled.

That's very welcome in these times. Thank you 😊

Belated #caturday from Monkey, who is in his tower keeping an eye on the tulips 🌷

Antony Gormley’s DOUBT returns to the artist’s collection - Wells Cathedral August 2024

Read more here: www.wellscathedral.org.uk/archives/749...

I believe Gormley's "Doubt" (aka, The Iron Sugar Cubes") left Wells Cathedral in 2024, so visual harmony has been restored.
It had been installed at the north end of the West front, seen here with some gratuitous change-ringing 🔔

Alfred's Tower, at the end of a fine circumperambulation of the Stourhead Estate.
#spring #stourhead #nationaltrust

Spring sun warming the Man on Bench (Giles Penny), Bruton

In the corrupted currents of this world
Offense’s gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law