Edinburgh is a tad chilly this evening and thoughts of family members happy on their holidays this week, together with stumbling across this lovely photo, have been evoking Spain. ¡Hasta luego!
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Evocando España
Tag: evocation
Hearth of red and gold
Reflections by a Fire
On moving into an old house in New Hampshire
Fire is a good companion for the mind;
Here in this room, mellowed by sunlight, kind
After yesterday’s thrall of rain and dark,
I watch the fire and feel some warm thoughts spark …
May Sarton
Collected Poems
A good walk on a cool grey afternoon, coupled with thoughts of some more baked apples for supper, have resulted in the lighting of my wood stove and plans for that most lovely of autumnal occupations: hot coffee, buttered scones and books beside the fire. Sometime yesterday I was speaking with a friend about the power of evocation. Oh so very much is evoked and re-membered by a warm ash-burning hearth of red and gold. And ‘warm thoughts spark …’
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Gerry’s such a poet
Gerry’s ‘ferry ‘cross
the Mersey’ always stirs a
years-old gratitude154
Art’s directions
sight of this stair takes
me straight back to language school
in BarcelonaMM Haiku 124 Day 154 (Barcelona here)