Category: Black and White

Whilst the sun is scorching around Europe at the moment there are times of year we grab every ray of sunshine we can.

This set is from an abandoned water dam frozen in late winter, the warm sun had started to thaw the ice and snow, as life started to return.

WINTER SUN

BY MOLLY FISK

How valuable it is in these short days,

threading through empty maple branches,

the lacy-needled sugar pines.

Its glint off sheets of ice tells the story

of Death’s brightness, her bitter cold.

We can make do with so little, just the hint

of warmth, the slanted light.

The way we stand there, soaking in it,

mittened fingers reaching.

And how carefully we gather what we can

to offer later, in darkness, one body to another.

It’s wonderful to be by the sea under the glorious summer sunshine, but it’s beautiful when the storms roll in.

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“But now we’ll float

Take life as it comes

We’ll float

Take life as it comes”

Words of Polly Jean Harvey

Figure study with black glass sphere.