Meteorite

Holy Isle #6

From the south end, looking north along the coast of Holy Island with the peaks of Arran in the distance.

Sun Halo

22° circular sun halo with circumzenithal arc visible in the top of the picture.

Taken from my garden, Norway.

Close-up of the not-very-often-seen circumzenithal arc.

If you'd like to know more about these atmospheric optical phenomena, then follow this link www.atoptics.co.uk

Stormy Sky

Lady in Red

Goats

Gate

Beach #6

Bee #3

Arran

The peaks of north Arran, taken from the summit of Holy Island.

Cairn #2

Rock

The Meditator

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”

Richard Dawkins

Milky Way

Five Short Chapters

AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS
by Portia Nelson

I

I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I fall in.
I am lost ... I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes me forever to find a way out.

II

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in the same place
but, it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

III

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in ... it's a habit.
my eyes are open
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

IV

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

V

I walk down another street.

Sunset #7

Flowers #7

Lighthouse #7

Pillar Rock Lighthouse

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.


~ Rumi ~

Pony #2

Night #4

The jetty on Holy Island,

with the lights of Lamlash across the water

Holy Island #5

Taken from Lamlash, Isle of Arran

Out beyond ideas ...

Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other'
doesn't make any sense.

Rumi

Devonian

Teignmouth

River Dart

Dartmoor

Cathedral

Exeter

New Bridge

Dartmoor

Leaves #2

Teignmouth

Holne Woods

Dartmoor