looking at the sunset: but they look at the trees!

which look back at the sun
dreaming blue flowers….

18.01pm

18.07pm

18.11pm

18.16pm

18.19pm

Gill McGrath© March 25

Posted on March 25, 2015March 25, 2015 by Gill McGrath 8

flying over bright fields late afternoon~ and then to bed

Gill McGrath© March 24

Posted on March 24, 2015March 24, 2015 by Gill McGrath 6

looks like a place to sit

hidden
in a mist
all on your own

(if you are a bird that is)…. Gill McGrath© March 23

Posted on March 23, 2015March 23, 2015 by Gill McGrath 14

Looking for the Moon

Tonight Venus in a cloud is dancing with the Moon…..

Here Venus is a dot….
somewhere in the pink….

Just above the hedge
~ Venus dances with the Moon!

Gill McGrath© ~ Sunday March 22

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Gill McGrath 12

Lines…..

Sun lifting light purple mist
Into the distant blue
Long shadows sprinkling pink
Two trees
A view

[as was~ between 6 52 am and 6 58 am ~ March 21] Gill McGrath ©

Gill McGrath © light. view. particular

Posted on March 21, 2015March 21, 2015 by Gill McGrath 8

this morning ~a grey partial eclipse in the haze

as it was…
the first sign of sun… no sign of the moon yet! 8.27am

grey sky over the field ~ no sign of anything!. 8.32am

9.08am

9.18am

9.19am

9.24 am

the smile! 9.36 am

9.56 am

The dove sat there for most of the time!
The sky was filled with grey cloud over the haze so when the sun peeked in and out of the cloud the mists defined the shape of the moon against the sun without the glare.
Gill McGrath© March 20 morning Yeh!

Posted on March 20, 2015March 20, 2015 by Gill McGrath 17

looking at the slow fall of a pastel sun ~

defined by the mist
which clung
all day
to the sky
to the hill
to the far off trees
then finally blushed ~
and was gone

Posted on March 18, 2015March 18, 2015 by Gill McGrath 8

the old guard waits for the spring …..

the new goose
scratches
by the wire
thinking spring
time to guard the park
Giant Gunnera shields
her new shoots
in the dark
dreaming
her own fire
old watering hole
waiting for hundreds
new
pilgrims in the yard
cafe sleeps
curtains drawn
still
with no regard ~
Gill McGrath© March 17

Gill McGrath©

The Golden Cross, Oxford
Before commercial inns came into being monasteries were obliged to provide food and shelter for travellers. The place where The Golden Cross stands today was always a destination or a shelter for pilgrims and travellers. Gifted in 1193 to Osney Abbey during the reign of Richard I, it was immediately sold to a vintner named Mauger and known as Mauger’s Hall in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, providing stabling, refreshment and chambers to a large number of people. It was owned by New College (Oxford University) for more than four hundred years from 1390 to 1810. Now a Pizza Express.

(Information from a leaflet printed 1912 by Oxford Architectural and Historical Society. About building conservation)