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• The Art of the Cool Heart
• A lifeboat …
• A Glass of Water …
• If we loosen a word …
• Quickening
• Happy New Year
• Light
• The meaning of life?
• Mid afternoon
• Lights
• Another golden day
• Rounding out the morning
• Awe
• Golden evening
• Bubbles
• Heck, it’s hot!
• Early …
• Reflection
• Atop Salisbury Crags
• Holyrood Snapshots
• Maintenance & Back Up
• Summer days
• Suntanned
• Morning
• Edinburgh haar
• Sunlight
• Everything listens
• From the mindfulness bench
• Carlingwark loch
• To the one who watched the sky
• Late afternoon light in Lakeland
• Festive Kraków 2025
• Waking up to Wednesday
• Light deepening
• An extra dimension
• Softening
• Portobello
• Sweet imaginings
• Something in the air
• The people watch
• Lakeland Spring
• An interior place
• Happy Easter!
• Dynamic earth
• Sunlight
• A gilded change of name
• Revisiting: Entranced by the light
• Connections
• To re-become
• Presence
• Open
• Friends
• Little treasures
• Cells and stars
• Something special
• We could change that
• Perelló
• Haircut ‘n’ Tuk Tuk
• Grateful
• Vision
• What do you think?
• Like a cloud
• In case …
• Aspects of paradise
• Cinders!
• In the corner
• Healthy food …
• To understand you
• Fantasies?
• Protector
• Proportion
• The gift …
• Joy
• Beholding
• Sunday evening mellowness
• Fulfilling resolve
• Revisiting: Illumination
• Heart to Heart
• The 2nd in ‘21
• Monday 1st January 2024 😊
• Happy New Year
• Colors your eye cannot see
• Out of darkness
• Nearing year’s end
• Others’ shoes
• Let there be light 🙏
• More a way of life
• The ones who circle
• Here in the low-light hours
• A simpler peace
• Perhaps …
• Transformed by an energy
• When we awaken
• Delighted
• Christmas Markets
• Startled by Peace
• Peace
• When you wake
• Quietening
• Within
• Stirling Castle
• Touching the stars
• Teeth chattering returning
• Revisiting: Some times
• Hello Jack Frost
• Voyaging (still)
• A nip in the air
• Reflections and Futures …
• Capital reflection
• Sunday Tram Lines
• Edinburgh November Light
• Whichever way
• We’re meant to glow
• November Monday
• Portobello Window Art
• Warmth in my soul
• Where silence is prayer
• Hot work
• From time to time
• Wonderment
• Lakeland September
• Holyrood
• Stories
• Signet Library Revels
• Oh, Glen Coe
• Culross, Fife
• A good drying day
• Another work of art
• An Abiding Hum
• Imprints
• Haircuts
• Oh, such a sky!
• Royal Dutch Gazelle
• Past noon
• Sunny ways and days
• Coronation Day Lakeland Sunrise
• Edinburgh Blossoms
• Newhaven Harbour
• Spring scenes
• Easter at the RBG Edinburgh
• Atop a well-loved hill
• On the lovely East Coast
• Amsterdam i
• Amsterdam ii
• Edinburgh meandering i
• Edinburgh meandering ii
• Layered sunset
• Silent symmetries
• Silhouetting
• Connected
• A bracing air
• Encounters
• Our times
• Waloyo Yamoni
• Through the window
• Light
• Winter’s fine art
• ‘tis the season
• Every time I look up
• Dynamic Earth
• The things of the heart
• Scarves, gloves and puffas
• Pride in The Meadows
• Out and about
• Hushed
• Bitter and beautiful
• Navillera
• Rosy cheeks
• Winter sky
• Crisp and blue
• Every day we ignite …
• Walking home …
• Exuberant Edinburgh
• Monumentally glorious
• Edinburgh’s Christmas
• At The Big Red Barn
• Happy Thanksgiving
• For the brave ones
• A quality
• Assignments
• Good energy
• An illuminated transience
• Good morning!
• Nearly home
• Same scene
• Cloudscape
• Post Lunch Princes Street
• Evocando España
• P&P (*sort of)
• Boléro en France
• Contrast
• Relocation
• Mist and gold
• Wednesday
• Neighbourhood
• More breezy encounters
• Royal Botanic Gardens
• Colour and spice
• The Signet Library
• Clockwork
• Swirl
• Still mild
• Rosslyn Chapel
• Roslin Glen
• Full Moon and Jupiter
• Chim chiminey
• Wet and dry …
• Light
• Energy
• The comfort of raindrops
• Extraordinary light
• Holyrood gold
• Dunbar’s Close
• To be a light
• Life cycle’s crucible
• On a grey day
• Hugs for Florida
• Ullswater Way
• 4.15
• Hearth of red and gold
• Baked apples
• ¿Tú tienes preguntas?
• Autumn evening
• Beyond default
• Evening breathing
• Farewell
• Together
• Horizons
• Illumination
• Mellow morning
• The other
• Evening
• Edinburgh
• 21 years
• Cottage industry
• Simple gifts
• His Majesty The King
• Beloved
• Lake Land
• Turning
• Eycott sunset
• Kirkstone
• Like a plant
• Glory looking day
• A cloud of interests
• Alive with opportunities
• Cycling
• A quiet contemplation
• Pianodrome
• Edinburgh Tattoo
• Comedy Gala @Pleasance
• Good morning
• Nunquam inutilis
• Mellow fruitfulness
• Green and glorious
• Edinburgh overview
• Waves of people
• The way to go home
• Carousel
• Great Scott!
• What’s up next?
• Even when it rains
• Tinderbox Energy
• Austentatious
• Melrose Flow
• 3.03 time for tea
• Burn (on a hot day!)
• Moonlight becomes you
• Wonders to behold!
• Sunday Promenade
• Dance, then …
• Emblematic
• Cast of characters
• Festival overview …
• Spoiled for choice
• Festival gold
• Summer daydreamin’
• Festival City
• Beyond the chrysalis
• Overcast beauty
• Lilac wine
• Hello sunshine
• Ode to Joy
• They’re singing …
• Clean sheets
• Without love
• Lingering at the Well
• Waiting near the Well
• Paddling on Iona
• Twenty-nine degrees
• A Universal Song
• Emergence
• Infinite
• Simple joys …
• Yes, everything – revisited
• Calm
• Cool
• Awake or asleep?
• The variety of life
• Illumination
• Reactive Outdoor
• Resonance
• Sky blue Summer
• Squirreling
• New (old) kind of connection
• Back to nature
• Happy July
• Joyful surprise?
• Summer lovin’ Lovin’ summer
• How?
• And sang
• Simple
• Morning sun streaming
• Soft sounds
• Smiling faces
• ii After-supper amble
• i Only in so far
• Solstice
• Offering
• Neighbourhood
• Sunny Gullane Sunday
• Columcille
• Skyscape
• Dance
• Oasis in the city
• Memento Mori ~ New Calton
• At Waitrose Morningside
• Quiet hours
• Songs of Springtime
• Forth Bridges and Inchcolm Island
• Old, new, art and green
• What’s to be done …?
• Books
• Helloooo! We’re alive!
• Paddington (and ABBA)
• Thank you Ma’am
• Holyrood Jewel Of A Day
• Warm and wilder
• Good morning Sunshine
• Happy New Month
• Sunny days
• Rescue rose
• Mr. Turner
• More storm ‘n’ sun
• Sunshine or storm
• Tranquility
• Coffee ‘n’ camera
• Detail
• Best practice
• ‘Guest appearance’ …
• Bloom
• Some times
• It’s simple
• Our guides
• One Year Ago
• Warm colours required
• Sleepover
• Sing something simple
• Lindisfarne
• A New Era
• Zonked
• Lanterns and looking
• The sharing
• Coffee?
• Deskbound
• Have a heart
• Pottering
• Apples
• What it would look like …
• Robert Capa
• Happy May Day
• Pale light
• EDB > PNR
• Ordinary?
• Connections
• Some of the joys …
• He’s a high flyer
• Hard Rock
• From the first coffee
• Liberation
• A Royal Salute
• Time well spent
• EdSciFest at Portobello
• Vignettes and blossoms
• Blossoming Easter Monday
• Happy Easter
• Colours of new life
• Happy weekend
• Awakening
• By leaves we live …
• No matter what
• Elegy
• Retrospective
• Calton Hill Sunset
• Like a curtain
• Ah, that Edinburgh light
• North Berwick
• Kilimanjaro
• Ocean Terminal
• Skyscapes
• Stockbridge Sunday Morning
• Wings for Peace
• Seaside
• Les Colombes
• Beautiful sleeping elephant
• Ne’er cast a clout …
• Literary observers
• Stories matter
• Mothering Sunday
• Close-up
• Euphoria
• Spring in The Meadows
• Perspective
• Lament
• Slowly
• Awakening
• As much a phenomenon
• Blue sky thinking
• Opening …
• Energised
• Minerals
• Evening light
• Courage and hope
• Values, beliefs, thoughts
• Those who notice
• Not like a songbird
• Soul
• Urgent need for light …
• Improvisation
• Honouring courage …
• The coming of the light
• As one
• 🇺🇦
• Breathe ‘peace’
• Am I a good goose?
• Returners
• Welcome
• Beyond the dark days
• Hold life tenderly
• The Question
• When Earth speaks silently
• Соняшник – sunflower
• Belfast ii
• Hush cacophany
• Why storms?
• Contemplative pen
• Beyond masks …
• Stars shining bright *
• Weathered
• Birthday diving boards
• VW? Where to?
• Keeping company with
• Where the pot’s not – revisited
• I knew there was a reason
• Concepts
• Connections
• Winter garden …
• Disposition
• Always welcome
• Edinburgh daydreamin’
• Silhouetted
• Water and light
• I wonder
• I am a …
• Thank you
• Resting Space
• At the Gates of Dawn
• Ullswater blue
• Home to Lakeland sunset
• As though she were shy
• Coffee-time daydreamin’
• Ocean love
• Light
• Aida
• Tidal river – Se souvenir
• You know …
• Bookish dreams
• The 10th
• The limits of our sight
• Happy Returns
• Adaptability
• Southampton – a gateway
• Companions
• Wind and warmth
• Variables
• Awe
• Welcome ‘22
• NYE in Funchal, Madeira
• San Sebastián de la Gomera
• La Palma Sunrise
• Sea Cloud
• Little boat, wide ocean
• Santa Cruz
• 🎼🎶🌟in the morning
• Fair winds for Tenerife
• Fab-u-lous!
• Today …
• The authority of the clock
• Le pain est le soutien de la vie
• Lake replenishment
• More than just lights
• A sprinkle of magic
• I will leave the light on
• Daydream
• Softly
• Snuggle up
• Sauntering Sunday
• Voyage
• Alert ear and eye
• Winter readying
• Late Summer Lakeland
• Festival days ii
• Festival days i
• 🙏
• MD Edin
• Abbotsford
• Dotty about wildflowers …
• Picture perfect Perthshire
• 5 July Evening ii
• 5 July Evening i
• Nothing earthly minded
• Now I understand
• Sunny Sunday
• Edinburgh Saturday
• One third eclipse
• Blue sky thinking
• Sunshiny day
• Holy Name
• Sunday morning
• What colour’s supper today?
• Entranced by the light
• Aliveness!
• A glad day’s colours
• Better weather!
• Every now and again
• Like a small boat …
• Sustenance
• Sunset, haar and hame
• Spring snow
• To be
• Primal
• Our Lives in Watercolour
• The family of things
• Contemplating cycles
• Illuminating supper
• Yellowcraigs
• All in an Edinburgh evening
• Early evening stroll
• Not alone
• Life
• Imagine
• Reflective
• Sunlit oxalis
• Hello sunshine
• I love evening light here …
• Good morning Monday
• A Royal Gun Salute
• Surrexit!
• Sunrise to a New Day
• April Cherry Blossoms
• Late lunch
• One Edinburgh Thursday
• Quietened – and thankful
• Speaking for themselves
• Duddingston
• Calling
• Sights for sore eyes!
• Rooted
• Is that Brahms’ …
• Art of the hours
• In his studio
• Sky blue Saturday
• A lot to be grateful for
• The amber in spirits
• Intense imagery
• Full colours
• Spring springing
• Old Town Edinburgh
• The kind of day I love
• Marched them up to the top …
• Edinburgh windows
• Edinburgh Towards Evening
• Sunday afternoon amble
• Honestly!
• Portobello light
• Abstract
• The colour in reflections
• Let there be light
• Slideshow and Sticks
• Tip and Mitten
• Echoes
• Crags
• Captivating
• A Day With #StormDarcy
• Bright Year Ending
• Whoever and wherever you are …
• Cerebral response
• Tread lightly
• Just when …
• Enlightened
• Scenes seen
• Spiral
• The Dear Green Place
• Hey CB
• Build something
• To re-become
• Chillier chillin’
• What is it?
• Remembered in the morning
• Everything waiting
• Borders and beyond
• Who knew?
• Enthralled
• If
• Little things, great joy
• Now for indoor gardening
• Holding the Universe
• A trinity
• Tender
• Grounded art
• This mask business
• A long story
• More freely who we are
• Accidental?
• Robin Red Sunlit
• Memory
• Over the bridge
• Now or never
• The electric current is love
• Another …
• Isles and eagles of the mind
• Salty perception
• Far – but near …
• A better new normal?
• Triggered – in a good way
• Taking the air
• The view at the top
• When time weighs heavy
• One minute
• Higher, deeper, wider
• Daydreamer
• Outraged?
• Clarity
• Framed?
• Illumination
• To be seen
• Fledgling
• Water in the Órgiva Mountains
• High art
• Observed
• Promise
• Miniature
• Proportion
• Human awakening
• Borborygmi
• In this silence
• Evening comes
• Taste and see
• Colour and place?
• Origins?
• Reckoning
• Healthy eating
• Returns
• Gerry’s such a poet
• Water voles scampering
• Windows
• Nature’s art
• Polar vortex
• Nature’s industry
• InfoHaiku
• Songs sung smiling
• Gentle river
• Focus
• Shoreline
• Living nevertheless
• Night light
• Hushed
• Inside and out
• Near
• Great art and heart
• Envisioning
• Synapses
• Writing in light of violin & music making
• A good intention
• The way old friends do
• Manifestation: head to heart
• Sky gazing
• What?
• Long time ago …
• In 2019
• Elemental
• Now: start here
• Together
• A glory and a cov’ring
• Then and Now
• Reach
• Held Universe
• Asleep under stars
• Soul-speech
• Focus
• Vintage
• Contribution
• Smiler
• Upsides
• Life-art by paragraph
• Look up
• A little word
• Hearts and hearths
• Pre & c.1400
• Perspective
• Blue sky thinking
• Festivals
• Adventing
• Why poetry?
• Carriage return
• Healthy complexion
• Hourglass benefits
• Humming
• Yet to be
• You know
• Shapers
• Shaping
• Minimalist?
• Only now
• Love and hope and memory
• Mellow
• Pilgrimages
• Latecomer
• Graces
• Creative imagination
• Settled
• Tweaks
• In light
• Soul singing
• Heard
• Provision
• Fleeting?
• Cycle in the wind
• All in all
• Retrospection
• Fireside silence
• Visions
• Briefly
• Shapes and paths
• Waiting
• Energy re-distribution
• Root work’s drawing
• Autumn’s work
• Cycles
• Meteorological matters
• Stirring
• Grey?
• Embodied Wisdom
• Smiles
• Squirreling
• Unrushed
• Gold perspective
• Story circle
• Architects
• Realign
• For later
• Zakynthos sunrise
• Home scent
• Quietened
• Unfoldings
• Harvesting
• Rehydrating
• Pre-dawn
• Agios Dionysios
• On the road
• In the arc of the bay
• Mothering perichoresis
• 9am Lakeland morning
• Walking with Haiku
• Reflection and histories
• Walk in woodland
• We walked, still
• Then and now and will be
• Our day of light
• Remembering
• Delivered
• When the grass is jewelled
• Memories of chewing the cud
• This year’s first sight
• Iona
• Connel
• Hay day
• Inner light
• The Unrevealed
• Inward and outward
• Attentiveness
• Transparent screens
• Allegiances
• Just for the joy
• Daybreak
• Buttoned up
• Feel beauty with our eyes closed
• I am grateful for …
• Examine for a while
• Lunch
• Questions and no answers
• Anchored to the Infinite
• Attention
• Tranquil
• From her desk in Amherst
• Joy and haplessness
• To baffle us
• The western sky
• The opposite of being told
• Metamorphosis 
• Unaware too long
• Fragrance
• Far from the City
• Think for yourself
• Illumination
• On opening curtains
• Perspective
• Trajectories
• In inwardness
• Robert’s good counsel
• Donde el arte y la pasión se encuentran
• En buena compañía
• Storm Doris en route
• Bolognese daydreamer
• Blencathra in majesty
• Checks and balances
• Thanks for …
• Lakeland frosty morning
• After dark
• May I?
• Happy returns
• Time’s flight and gift
• Christmas Light
• Rumour
• Hollowed out
• Little bins
• Everyday Art ii
• Pacing oneself
• Beams and echoes
• Moors living
• He’s got mail
• RDT
• 9 sharp
• Waiting
• Poised
• Teddies and tango
• Sculpted
• Good idea!
• Live it
• La Graciosa
• Everyday Art i
• Unfolding
• Journals
• Lost and found
• Literary treasure
• Light behind letters
• Unfathomable
• In all ten directions
• Watchful earthing
• Listening
• Lucy Gray – and the grace of memory
• Our own fathoms
• Man’s Life
• Yes: I feel them near
• Empty, it fills with light
• Tutankhamun
• Hedgehog Hall
• Take off
• Warmth
• The way old friends do
• First frosts
• Autumn’s best art
• Sunlit flight
• Calming
• Harmony and hymnody
• The singing
• The gallery
• Newsnight
• From Syria, with love
• Really
• Hallin Fell
• Square eyes
• Sitting comfortably
• Garden friends
• Mini verger
• Familiar
• Here, too
• Here and there
• The very scent
• Sunlit comets and stars
• Voyaging
• Suscinio
• Not by words only
• Bretagne
• Widening circles
• Initiations
• Sur le quai à côté de la seine
• Salle de La Joconde
• Grande Vitesse
• Wind in their sails
• Sunset fleet