Rhubarb!

Odd little things, hey?

Staple Inn courtyard

Which do you like better and why? They're the same set of photos, only each cropped differently. I can't decide which I like better for the first set. The second set focuses on such different views that I almost see them as completely separate photos.

This is a lovely little courtyard hidden off the street, behind theStaple Inn buildings area. Never would have found it if I didn't leave for work so early and have a knack for wandering ("getting lost").

Holborn, London WC1

themed hodgepodge: all at the lake

Cycles

Every so often I get exhausted thinking about the various cycles that make up life. Often it is the seasons. I start to think about how wonderful it is going to be when spring is here and then I think of how horrible it will be when winter is back again and how it always comes around and will never go away. On the weekends I am bothered by the time it gets to Sunday afternoon, that I have to go back to work on Monday (it always happens to me, why?! well, I suppose this isn't a good weekend example as I actually don't have work tomorrow). It seems like a never-ending cycle of work, weekend, work, weekend, work, weekend.... I don't want to continually get depressed every weekend because I have work coming up again, nor do I want to spoil spring/summer/fall because I see winter looming. How do we break up those cycles? When it gets really bad, I begin to think of life as made up of all these cycles and I think, "Is this all there is? These cycles that will go on for years and years and years?" Life seems really tiring if you think of it like that. It's like those times when you start to get annoyed that you have to go to the bathroom or shower or figure something out to eat yet again and you think "Why do I have to use my time going to the bathroom so often?!" No? That's just me that thinks that? Oh.... :P

Good Bark

In my pottery class I am making a birdbath with the outer bit looking like bark. To get this look I tried various things but eventually just found myself outside the studio smashing my clay up against a tree... who knew getting a good bark texture could be so difficult otherwise? Now I can better appreciate good bark.

favourite time of year, again

Must take a long time to grow all of this...