African Dreaming

Last night in my darkened room I dreamed of elephants. Within thin splinters of raw moonlight silent giants crossed my path to wallow in shallow water and drift in and out of trees. Wise eyes closed and opened slowly like the shutter of my camera, taking snaps of the world around them to store deep inside their ancient memories for future generations. I watched the restless feet of zebras in the white hot sun milling in the African dust a haze of movement through my weary mind. I heard the thud of hippo feet the snuffle and snork of midnight foraging as they lumbered through my subconscious, in the distance I also heard the roar of lions a drowsy melody meant to charm and hypnotize.
Somewhere in this waking dream I hear the urgent call of home, a summoning to leave on the next unscheduled breeze.

Evensong

I love the walks we have on the farm, they are 2nd best only to our beach walks. There have been sightings of coyote and mountain lion here, so I try not to go to late, or too early in the morning. This evening though the light was too good to resist.

Senga runs on ahead looking for the elusive groundhogs, sometimes she waits patiently for me to finish taking pictures..other times she runs back to get me, impatient to get on with the business of walking.

Spring has come to our little valley, although the mornings and evenings are still pretty chilly, the snow on the surrounding mountains has gone, and the days are definitely lengthening and warming up.

Still, at night I have the fire on and the early morning walks require a warm coat to snuggle into. The lupins and other wild flowers meantime, just sit there and soak up the sun,

and in a few short days these fields will be filled with colour.

Horse mad Senga almost made this rider lose her seat when she barked with excitement and caused the horse to startle. I snapped with my cam as she cantered off into the sun, I loved the effect, it seemed to capture the evening perfectly and so I left the pics untouched.

It was an evening of good light generally and I took pictures randomly of the same things I've taken pictures of many times, today the colours seemed brighter, the shadows deeper, the grass greener.

Maybe I need to get out more....