Spa Farm, Northamptonshire on a week day morning in January. (Escaping London) Impressions: Flat land, distant horizons, blue sky, stillness, peace, buzzing tractors. Woods, occasional walkers, a lost Ocado van, a jogger. Hay bales, farm house, long track, mud, trees, shadows. Question: What do you want to grow more of in your life? This could be a …
Burghley Park on a week day morning in January. (Escaping London) Impressions: Sunless day, damp in the air, wide park, naked trees wearing only balls of threatening mistletoe, ancient trees. Princess Diana memorial, young trees, drawings by children that will be adults now. Deer droppings, electric fence, cattle grids, golden door of Burghley House, dulled today. …
Stamford Meadows on a week day morning in January. (Escaping London) Impressions: Frosty grass, ducks, geese, pretty stone town skyline. Mud hard with frost and mud soft with rain and mud piled into mole hills and mud of different shades. Bare trees, tree surgeons working. A robin. A field of winter wheat. Walkers, perhaps hunting …