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• 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
• Human connection
• Соняшник – sunflower
• Belfast ii
• Hush cacophany
• Why storms?
• Contemplative pen
• Beyond masks …
• Stars shining bright *
• Finisterre
• Weathered
• Musical evocation
• Early VW Camper!
• Birthday diving boards
• VW? Where to?
• Keeping company with
• Cannes you dream?
• New ways for new days?
• Belfast
• Where the pot’s not – revisited
• I knew there was a reason
• Concepts
• Connections
• Winter garden …
• Self-Portrait
• Disposition
• Always welcome
• Edinburgh daydreamin’
• Silhouetted
• Water and light
• I wonder
• I am a …
• Lighting up life
• Thank you
• Resting Space
• The giggles …
• 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
• The dew looks up
• At all times
• Aware
• Oblivious …
• Maintaining a smile
• Can you see what I saw?
• Iridescence
• Le pain est le soutien de la vie
• Two melodies
• Sight and scent
• Lake replenishment
• More than just lights
• This Sunrise of Wonder
• Inner universe
• Aromatic air
• Silence and stillness
• No special talent
• Sources of joy
• A little more magic …
• A sprinkle of magic
• I will leave the light on
• Yes, everything
• The bud stands for all things
• Mind-clearing
• Somewhere …
• Rounded or sharp?
• Extraordinary wonder
• Sunrise
• I see (and was seen)
• Daydream
• Sunday
• Softly
• It enraptures us
• Snuggle up
• Purposely
• Design
• Learn, unlearn and relearn
• Sauntering Sunday
• Voyage
• Alert ear and eye
• Winter readying
• Day and night light
• Late Summer Lakeland
• Festival days ii
• Festival days i
• 🙏
• MD Edin
• Abbotsford
• Dotty about wildflowers …
• Edinburgh dreamin’
• Picture perfect Perthshire
• 5 July Evening ii
• 5 July Evening i
• Now I understand
• Sunny Sunday
• Edinburgh Saturday
• One third eclipse
• Blue sky thinking
• Sunshiny day
• Light and line
• 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
• One of these mornings
• 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
• Budding – and finding one’s feet
• St Patrick’s Festival
• Lungs full of fresh air
• A lovelier flower?
• Snowdrops …
• 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
• So much more
• Old Town Edinburgh
• Pedestal table
• The kind of day I love
• Marched them up to the top …
• Edinburgh windows
• Edinburgh Towards Evening
• Sunday afternoon amble
• An Edinburgh Festival of Winter
• In the wee small hours
• 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 …
• A gift that speaks for itself …
• Clearing out the cobwebs
• Be a leader
• An invisible cloak …
• Autumnal amble
• MV Columbus
• Cerebral response
• Tread lightly
• Just when …
• Leaping light for your delight
• Enlightened
• Scenes seen
• If I were tall as they …
• Like a kite
• Spiral
• We’ll see the light …
• The Dear Green Place
• Hey CB
• Build something
• To re-become
• Last of the season
• It’s us who need nature …
• Chillier chillin’
• What is it?
• Sand sculpture
• Remembered in the morning
• Cimbalo echoing …
• Change of mood
• Everything waiting
• A nip in the air
• Close bosom-friend
• Borders and beyond
• Who knew?
• Enthralled
• If
• Connection
• Breathing in what we breathe out
• Window shopping
• 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
• Coffee time
• Worth the wait
• 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?
• City life?
• Mirror in mirror
• A powerful experiment
• Illumination
• To be seen
• If there’s one thing … (Transfiguration)
• Early inspiration?
• What it means to be human
• Sometimes misty
• Her eloquence
• Dwelling places
• Fledgling
• Water in the Órgiva Mountains
• High art
• Observed
• Promise
• Notre Dame’s Universal Watch
• Miniature
• Proportion
• A perfect splash
• Coffee?
• Oceans wide
• 30’s dust plains, perhaps?
• Reflection
• Human awakening
• Borborygmi
• In this silence
• Evening comes
• Taste and see
• Colour and place?
• Origins?
• Further to yesterday
• Surprise
• Post-admin
• Reckoning
• As water to the thirsty
• Who knew?
• Calling all pieces …
• Your thoughts?
• Prompts
• Healthy eating
• February’s end
• Laughter
• Graces
• Warming
• Literally?
• Returns
• Gerry’s such a poet
• Water voles scampering
• Windows
• Promenade advantage
• Illumination
• Minimalism’s whisper
• Nature’s art
• Grandstand
• Re-turning warmth
• 1936 was a good year
• Great fullness
• Promise
• Sunday evenings
• Boxed?
• Repeat often
• Reverie
• That was a wonderful day!
• Sparking ideas
• Sunlit turquoise
• The architecture of life
• Eyes have seen
• And the greatest … is Love
• Distillation
• Polar vortex
• Nature’s industry
• InfoHaiku
• Now-ness
• Songs sung smiling
• Thought and effect
• Gentle river
• Art’s directions
• Gratitude
• Unlimited
• Rêverie
• Levavi oculos meos
• Focus
• Illumination
• Shoreline
• Living nevertheless
• Night light
• Hushed
• Inside and out
• Near
• Great art and heart
• Envisioning
• A love song to the world
• Synapses
• Writing in light of violin & music making
• A good intention
• The way old friends do
• Manifestation: head to heart
• Sky gazing
• Life-arts
• 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
• Mind’s eye
• Vintage
• Plain question
• Contribution
• What child?
• Smiler
• Upsides
• Life-art by paragraph
• Look up
• Ice design
• A little word
• Hearts and hearths
• Minimalist
• Upside-down right-way-up
• Pre & c.1400
• Perspective
• Blue sky thinking
• Festivals
• Adventing
• Why poetry?
• Carriage return
• Evocation
• Healthy complexion
• Hourglass benefits
• We don’t know the half …
• Humming
• Thank you V&P
• Yet to be
• Interlude | a gift …
• You know
• Shapers
• Shaping
• Yes of course
• What d’you do?
• Minimalist?
• Interlude | just for the joy …
• Only now
• Festivals
• Encounters
• Sands of time
• Poet’s block
• Admired
• Shelter
• Love and hope and memory
• Friar’s chorus
• Gloom-chaser
• Hot air in intentional space
• Mellow
• Then of now
• Monday mornin’ smiler
• Pilgrimages
• Latecomer
• Majestic
• Graces
• Hallowed ones
• 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
• Transformation
• 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
• Cave painter
• Running The Red Line
• Reflection and histories
• Walk in woodland
• Scent
• The Ground
• We walked, still
• Then and now and will be
• Our day of light
• Remembering
• A reset button
• Acorns, owl feather and ribbon
• Delivered
• When the grass is jewelled
• Autumn garden days
• Changing hues
• Memories of chewing the cud
• Figurehead
• The Red Boat
• Aloft
• Who wants to leave?
• Silent words!
• What a home base
• This year’s first sight
• Iona
• Connel
• Autumnal colours
• Hay day
• Unfolding
• Inner light
• Reasons and seasons
• Little and large
• Time to say
• The Unrevealed
• A long view
• Over our own fathoms
• Inward and outward
• The best thing
• Attentiveness
• The one that sings
• Magnified
• Transparent screens
• Aira Force
• Within and without
• Allegiances
• Surprise
• Just for the joy
• Dawning
• Recovered
• Abundant sense
• Daybreak
• Transfiguration
• Still here
• At evening
• Rania
• Proximity
• Buttoned up
• Ropes
• Pursuit
• Feel beauty with our eyes closed
• I am grateful for …
• Pppp pick up a pen
• Examine for a while
• Lunch
• Come and going
• Questions and no answers
• Anchored to the Infinite
• Angels
• Present
• Attention
• Friendship
• Tranquil
• Illumination
• Many colours, white page
• From her desk in Amherst
• We have still to learn
• Their finest
• A good day
• Joy and haplessness
• To baffle us
• Astronomica
• The western sky
• The opposite of being told
• Metamorphosis 
• Unaware too long
• Whose song?
• Fragrance
• Far from the City
• Think for yourself
• Silent words
• Illumination
• Pilgrimages
• When Boston was Venice
• Winter, spring, summer or fall
• On opening curtains
• Perspective
• From dust
• Perichoresis
• A little bit of Rilke
• T-u-r-q-u-o-i-s-e
• What calms and settles …
• Trajectories
• Clear sky and silence
• Something simple
• All in a day
• Witness
• Creative incubation
• In inwardness
• Life school
• Robert’s good counsel
• Donde el arte y la pasión se encuentran
• Eccentric and wholly holy
• Mirador de Barcelona
• En buena compañía
• Poetry & prose
• Storm Doris en route
• Bolognese daydreamer
• Monday morning
• Colours of day
• Something’s brewin’
• Blencathra in majesty
• A Kindle Splash
• Checks and balances
• Thanks for …
• Everywhere you look
• Stop, look, listen
• Lakeland frosty morning
• Transfer
• 5 years old
• Discovery
• After dark
• May I?
• Still a bit bleak
• Blue sky days
• Golden morning
• Wind-whipped ears
• Fusing outer with inner
• Happy returns
• Time’s flight and gift
• Christmas Light
• Silence that carries
• Rumour
• Hollowed out
• Quiet days i
• Little bins
• Everyday Art ii
• Pacing oneself
• Reunion thanks 
• Beams and echoes
• Moors living
• He’s got mail
• Light with purpose
• RDT
• 9 sharp
• Waiting
• Poised
• Teddies and tango
• Sculpted
• Good idea!
• Live it
• La Graciosa
• Everyday Art i
• Unfolding
• Pencilling
• Look at those smiles!
• Mirroring
• Thanksgiving
• Exuberance and sunsets
• Journals
• Lost and found
• Literary treasure
• Light behind letters
• Unfathomable
• Clunk, return, whirr and bell
• In all ten directions
• The fall of the leaf
• Man flu
• Watchful earthing
• Silent witness
• Listening
• A whole thing
• New aeons
• At the base of a tree
• Lucy Gray – and the grace of memory
• Clowning
• Déjà vu
• Keep Folk Smiling
• 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
• Experience
• Orchard dwelling
• Patience
• Recognition 
• Frisson
• September days in Morbihan
• Monday market
• Tidal river
• Hat tip to Brittany Ferries
• Winchester
• Fully fledged!
• Gaia
• Words and community
• Ebb and flow
• You radiate
• Crossing the Sound
• Lighthouse
• Dawning
• Catching joy
• Watching the hours
• Cantor’s echo
• Instamatic
• Strong tower
• Pathfinder
• Marbled
• Inverary
• Set in form
• After rain
• Swallows and Amazons
• Friend
• Earth-secrets
• Summer cleaning
• To sea or not to sea
• On the old suspension bridge with camera
• Proxima b
• A little solitary
• Adults and bicycles
• Wider family
• Natación ( pero no en Río )
• Grown accustomed 
• Within their capabilities
• Malaprop and Frobscottle
• Natural gesture
• Gelassenheit – letting go ii
• A citizen of the world
• Doing business in silence
• What I know about water
• On being given five keys
• Possession
• Seasoned observation
• Empathy
• Capital
• Beautiful
• Lily and Freddy
• Creative aliveness
• Delicate shiftings
• Cosmic dance
• Green bananas
• Sunday
• Silence and story
• Time travel
• I woke up
• Lavanda
• What a society promulgates
• Inquisitive and tentative
• Horizons
• Sunset fleet
• Quivering, swirling, tapping
• Ancient of Days
• Tower
• Fully, really, alive
• Gentle evening
• Watermelon way
• Olive groves
• Sun chased
• A baby siskin
• Vibrations
• When we have put it into words
• Look for the light
• Why do you run?
• Radical optimism
• Different arrivals
• Not much to report
• Each has a different journey
• Gentle, wild, bright, and beautiful
• The seed of creation
• Spruced up white
• Mr Beevor’s
• On the cards
• An axiom
• Kingfishers
• Of high solitude
• Generative action
• But time does fly …
• Most of the time
• If I knew
• A turning aside
• Infinitely patient
• Conjoined bubbles
• The Wind on the Downs
• Axis mundi
• Following the wrong god home
• It’s the silence
• You rang
• Substance
• Wings of Spring
• The heart and hearth of things
• Focus
• In the presence
• Pass me a palm
• Visceral art
• Housework
• Pedestal table
• Photos – and Virginia Baily
• Leaderless teacher
• Doctor Thorne
• Adapting the Classics
• A vitality
• In an instant
• Immense and inward
• Roots
• Hope
• Laughter
• Untouchable serenity
• Filled with a space
• Fence post, hedge and tree
• To paint the ineffable
• Houghton Weavers
• Slight horizontal wrinkle (yawwwn)
• Now or far?
• Live in the changing light
• Turning point
• Velcro or Teflon?
• From above
• Infinite extension
• Inner work
• Weekend Meditation (!)
• Birthday belonging
• Elkie’s a singer
• The Other Kingdoms
• Starry night
• It’s stopped raining!
• Jaipur Marigold
• Lifetime’s journey
• A bit of Anam Cara then …
• Elements of belonging
• Great intangibles
• Embrace
• Candlemas light
• February
• Winter’s accumulation
• 1000 petals
• Wind-lift
• A very small tree
• Something inwardly portable
• Supreme development
• Sleep
• More imagination …
• Imagination
• Danish Girl
• Connection
• Transformed
• Blanketed
• Where your heart is
• Come on laughing
• Hallowing an interval
• In there
• Silence … form of a melody
• Light-possessed atmosphere
• Uni-verse
• Gelassenheit – letting go
• A pear
• Encounter
• Resonating
• Snow Queen
• Mind your head!
• Examen
• The long run
• Lighting candles
• A budding writer
• Something tells me …
• New Year’s Eve
• Presence
• Unmoving majesty
• In the zone
• Light
• Their within
• Windows
• Little Icon
• He’s delivering
• Pen strokes paint
• Rudolph with bumps
• Pen and ink
• Tied with ribbon
• Little fir tree
• Newborn-starry-hands
• An interior place
• At home in the heavens
• Ocean Oneness
• Communion beyond words
• A far-off clarity
• Percy ate the Bhagavad Gita
• Other circles
• When a child is born
• Bigger space
• Little space
• Wordsworthian weather
• Inundation
• Throwing dust
• Thornthwaite
• Freedom space
• Brooklyn
• Fountainhead
• Beckoning
• Murmuring
• I Am Not I
• Analogies
• Flow
• New news
• Cosmopolitan silence
• Advert or address?
• Movements?
• Widening circles
• Grains of sand
• First to see
• Art in silence
• A propensity to unite
• Holding on
• By the road
• The end of …
• Restoration
• Presences
• Evening
• Vaster and stranger
• The kind old sun
• Self-conscious spacetime
• Know that thing …
• Instant success
• Sunrise stands still
• Persimmon
• All souls
• Spaces in between
• Not just Winnie-the-Pooh
• Benedictus
• One moment
• A veil lifted
• A little temple
• Pasture for gazelles
• Inscrutable Design
• Essence
• Context
• What the spirit reaches for
• The Ubiquity of a Presence
• Many waters
• Time
• Lavender
• Imagine
• Dobrodošli u Hrvatsku
• Booked
• Don’t
• Inviting the quiet
• Stranger-worlds melding
• I see …
• A Lesson and a Lake
• Poetry rising
• Mr Holmes
• Imperceptible
• Where the pot’s not
• I think he did
• Listening
• Soon
• Practice
• Introductions
• Hidden wells
• Wind in my wheels