Sunday 4 October 2015

Welsh autumn sunset...

A quick trip to Wales this weekend arriving on the Friday just as the light was going. It's October and the trees are still almost completely green, covered in so many leaves this year that the branches seem to be bending under their weight. Maybe it's these last few weeks of sunshine but it seems like summer goes on and on as if standing still. Only of course it won't, a change will come soon. It always does.

In the field across the road from the cottage Saturday evening brought sunshine and a touch of mist. The grasses and rogue barley are tall. They waved in the soft breeze as the sky went from light blue to purple and for a moment I was lost in the tranquility of it all. There is no art like nature and no matter how hard I try I can never capture that experience of it in either words or pictures.

The tranquility didn't stay for long. I was in the moment and then out again thrown between what has been and what is to come. It wasn't the crows flying overhead towards the sun or the noise of the tractor in the late evening field. The sheep were quiet and standing and the cattle were softly munching away on the grass.

Everything was peace. Everything that is except me. It's that time of year. Time is moving on and I can feel a change coming. It won't be long before the grasses in the field are covered in a rime of frost, then snow, torn by the wind and battered by storm. Time is moving on a fraction of a second at a time, fraction on fraction creating eternity.

Sometimes I wish there were no time, just a moment repeated over and over again. A change is coming. I don't like change.

5 comments:

  1. Graham Ido Taxi Kinsey on FB
    You know what they say
    HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS

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    1. Andrew Height
      Not sure where my head is at the moment Graham. It was a nice break though.

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    2. Graham Ido Taxi Kinsey
      the first comment says it all Back from Wales, but still there really

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  2. Tim Preston on FB
    We can adapt nature but as of yet we cannot control nature- we must accept it - the change in seasons. Trust life. It won't be long before you're eulogising about getting cosy around a lovely fire with a fine malt whiskey. You see if you don't! smile emoticon

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    1. Andrew Height
      You are of course totally correct Tim. The seasons are like the moon, making my mood and spirits ebb and flow with the pull of irresistible futility.

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