The colour of Sunlight / Rhubarb

Evening Bones

mantelpiece - B's studio

Window - half way up the stairs

Bee Witness

Postcard from Iris / Iris

6,400,099,980 moments in a day

( The treasury of the true Dharma Eye )

Hanging in the Windows of Kirkwall / Shearer's and Clark Thomson

Boot - becoming vegan

( B )

& Margaret's Perplexite

Quhen Alexander our kynge was dede,

That Scotland lede in lauche and le,

Away was sons of alle and brede,

Of wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle.

Our gold was changit into lede.

Christ, born in virgynite,

Succoure Scotland, and ramede,

That stade is in perplexite.

Sage & Juniper

from the mountains of Tibet

( used by the Dalai Lama to purify the atmosphere )

 in Aaron's pot

Shelducks / Stove Bay

( back from Siberia )

Sand Shadows

Papa Westray Sketchbook

A Drawn out Murmur

Then a deeper sound is heard, a drawn out murmur,

as the cold Southerly sighs in the woods sometimes, 

as the troubled sea hisses on an ebb tide, 

as the rapacious fire whistles in a sealed furnace.

Then I'd urge you to burn fragrant resin, right away,

and give them honey through reed pipes, freely calling them

and exhorting the weary insects to eat their familiar food.

( Virgil )

They are Not Dandelions

appearing up the sandy track.

wind blown bucket  & sprouting peonies

(Past the Equinox now)

Through Glass

Max 1934 - 2016

" If I have a small voice, and people

are willing to listen,

I'd be pleased."

Invention of Aristaeus - Arcadian Master

creatures, of a type marvellous to see, swarm together,

without feet at first, but soon with whirring wings as well

and more and more try the clear air, until they burst out,

like rain pouring from summer clouds,

or arrows from the twanging bows,

whenever the lightly armed Parthanians first join battle.

( V )

Apis Mox / Autogenesis of Bees

But if someone's whole brood has suddenly failed,

and he has no stock from which to recreate a new line,

then it's time to reveal the famous invention of Aristaeus

( Virgil - Georgics 4 )

Reunited

with Karen

Beekeeper

( detail of Beekeeper's dress )

She just needs shoes

Kelp Pit / Cloud Pools

B @ Peatwell

Neither straight nor crooked, neither here nor there

but shadows folded on deeper shadows

and deeper, to a core of oblivion

like the convolutions of a shadow shell

or deeper, like the foldings and involving of a womb.

( D H Lawrence - original draft / Ship of Death )

Revelry ( in Kirkwall )

Venus II

& Pilot boat

Dancing to the Antelope Song

It & Floki

( Gyro Nights/ Papa Westray/ winter ends )

The Evening Hour

when a thousand holes appear upon

 the surface of the earth

( Deleuze )