The Boxing Day Walk

On my walk today I had John Aldridge very much in mind with the fairytale quality he brings to the everyday Essex landscape. Let this glimpse of a walk, through an unidentified yet actual place, transport you to a more heightened and perhaps painterly realm!

Stepping Out with so much mud…hard to romanticise this!

The sky was lucid, the clouds playfully raced

Christmas red berries imposed some colour

An early milk-white snowdrop, the Flower of Hope, delicate amidst the green.

Weathered, crumbling walls – patterned, abstract and austere

Perpendicular lines…

…calling to be explored

Dream a while on the old bench before returning home.