Quiet Please

"L’amour de la beaute, as they say in France."

My end of July Footnotes.

www.jameslomax.com/quiet-please/

Doesn't seem any answer to the degraded image problem at BlueSky. It's just what it does :-(

Blackbirds and Skylarks

My mid June Footnotes.

"People might come here for your art, but maybe they leave with the forest" is my favourite line in this little film.
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Flower Moon

"The time when flowers, particularly wildflowers, are bursting into bloom" - the Flower Moon a few days go.

www.jameslomax.com/flower-moon/

Spots of Time

"The quality that we call beauty…must always grow from the realities of life” - Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, another Footnotes, and another poor quality thumbnail because Bluesky does that :-(

www.jameslomax.com/spots-of-time

Indoors and Outdoors

"I like the wildness of wild flowers, the name and idea of it compared to gardens."

Time for another Footnotes.
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The Path and the Words

“If you have the words, there’s always a chance you’ll find the way” - Seamus Heaney.

Thinking, not thinking, good walks and sunshine.

My new Footnotes.

www.jameslomax.com/the-path-and...

(Not sure why BlueSky degrades thumbnail images but there seems no solution to this).

Corsican Photo

Walk ideas, Scotland, avoiding serious injury, a photograph, and the "unofficial countryside."

My latest Footnotes.
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New favourite tree. Not many around this size, but it's as good as the cherries.

Certain Spring

"The flowers are prolific, some higher than me, like a small scented forest."

Walk ideas, spring, and a few other things. My new Footnotes.
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Out and About

"At the top of the route, on the plateau, there are marvellous views across to the Devil’s Kitchen where mist often hangs. That’s what you see in the photograph."

My new Footnotes.

www.jameslomax.com/out-and-about/

Art, Health, and Walking

"It’s a lovely combination when you have a dramatic long walk then relaxation in the sun with a good coffee breakfast"

I'm calling this "footnotes." Diary like meandering, interesting links and ideas, and, well, notes.
www.jameslomax.com/art-health-a...

Spring Change

Comments about X, a ripped crotch, good walks, and a beautiful bird. What more do you want?

www.jameslomax.com/spring-change/

Chiaroscuro Sunday. I'd forgotten how much I like looking at and thinking about art. Knew the light and dark style, but not what a wild character Caravaggio was. The 4th frame shows a view which wasn't named but I knew it immediately. Clue: it's the Lake District.

I Ching Election - James Lomax Do you hear your own heart beat? - Master Po Ignorant armies clash by night - Matthew Arnold China was the first different culture which interested me. “Patience, Grasshopper” Master Po says to Kwai C...

You may find this of interest, from a few months ago. The I Ching is one of my specialist subjects...

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A Foggy October Day - James Lomax The best things, he always used to say, are put together of a night and vanish with the morning. What people call the floating world ― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World I am fey again – ...

"I am fey again"

My new art gallery. Come and have a look at my art!

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I've camped beside Scottish seas four times. Miraculously avoiding midges, astonishingly free from wind; summery in a sand dune north and on Mull with this mist and flower morning.

Bright new green, I watch for these flowers every year.

For years I'd heard about Faulkner but never read him. This prose is so good I've got the book & will be reading him: "Love no more exists just at one spot and in one moment and in one body out of all the earth and all time and all the teeming breathed than sunlight does."

Walk and phone snaps with snow, ice, fog, sunshine and a lake. I don't like winter but there is this to enjoy.

The River and the Tree. I'm not sure how fast the buds form after autumn but I suspect it's almost immediately, ready for the next spring. Anyway I like seeing them.

"Return from a short distance
No need for remorse
Great good fortune"
- Return, I Ching hexagram 24. At the solstice, old declining yin changes into new arising yang.

EVIL DOES NOT EXIST - Official US Trailer YouTube video by Janus Films

Quiet, beautiful, and I have a feeling this is about to become a new favourite.
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"There’s so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature" - Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

"But you gotta dance, said Haruki Murakami."

Thinking about about systems, psychology, and I Ching philosophy.

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Finally some sun today. "In nature, it is the wind that disperses the gathered clouds, leaving the sky clear and serene" - I Ching hexagram 57. You wouldn't know it, but this is a Snowdonian hill.

"In the autumn electricity withdraws into the earth again and rests" - I Ching hexagram 17. Some autumn leaves remaining but a new winter arrival. So retreat, withdraw, with inside not outside energy.

It was! Easily found in the search.

"In the final scene, listening to Nina Simone’s Feeling Good, he smiles at one moment and cries the next."

Wim Wenders film Perfect Days, and the Book of Changes.

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