Getting to Know You

Our walks, these days, often take us along the reservoir beside the studio. Which means I’m getting to know it in all its many moods. And how they vary!

The pictures above were taken yesterday - on the most idyllic autumn day imaginable. The ones below were taken today - which was about as vile as a day can get.

The singing colours of Monday drained from the world, leaving a depressingly dreary palette. A fierce wind got up and the swans vanished to cosy cover somewhere along the banks. The rippling blue water turned cold and choppy, lurching over the sluice gate and careering into the dam wall.

I struggled to keep my giant, spotted umbrella the right way out; and risked being carried away like Mary Poppins in the process. Joss grew more bedraggled by the second and was actually glad, for once, to clamber back into the car.

But it’s good getting to know my new neighbour; and fascinating to observe the ways it dresses and behaves. I suspect we’re going to become very fond of one another over the months ahead.

Comments

[Tracy]

Such SPLENDOROUS surroundings...*sigh*... great for stoking the creative fires! :o) Happy Days in your new studio, Helen ((HUGS))