♉ melancholy may

you know how a song can remind you

of a time or place or person?

⇧ this song reminds me of my friend

Maria:

we would buy smash hits 

sit in her bedroom playing 45's

and belt out the songs:

happy funny silly carefree days:

sitting in the park drinking cheap cider:

 getting ready to top of the pops:

these two girls were very similar 

strong, individual and brave to the last:

I hope Poly finds Maria:

so they can sing it one more time, together ....

︘︘ folding orange birds and boats

 for guerilla art day

part of the southend fringe:

you must try to fly:

 time stands still here:

at Prittlewell Square:

 four little boats:

ready for launch:

puzzled couples watched

as I stepped over the fence

and onto the grass:

 now we float:

ᕱ soft sweet smell

a fine and subtle spirit dwells in every little flower each one its own sweet feeling breathes with more or less of power:  there is a silent eloquence in every wild bluebell that fills my softened heart with bliss that words could never tell: anne bronte

℧ on a french breeze

on the tail of a whim

an aeroplane took me to visit

Suzie Chaney et famille:

just a weekend:

but girl! what a weekend:

dipping our toes in the river

at Camon:

hoping the fish would nibble our toes:

under clear blues skies:

 picnic sur l'herbe:

a nap or a daydream:

listening to the babbling water and the

bees buzzing by:

then a stroll to the village:

to take more photos:

now I knew that she had a passion

for film:

for cameras old and new{ish}:

they all do those Chaneys:

that day we had more than 8 cameras 

between us!

Suzie loaned me one of hers:

loaded it up with black & white 

film and off I went, clickety click ....

later we {she} developed it at home

in her bathroom:

she's generous like that: 

{she's generous to boot}

my own private refresher in film photography:

later she mused about taking her online course

shooting the breeze

a step further:

doing precisely as we did that day:

can't wait!

ש come with me into the gardens

work has begun

at RHS Hyde Hall:

flowers awake in the April sun:

heuchera 'ruffles':

red and green should be seen:

paper bark peels:

fritillaries nod:

Mackintosh & Morris would be proud:

and amused by scarecrows 

everywhere:

created by the children:

✧ small measures

scintilla ~ a minute amount, hint, trace or particle:

negative spaces:

or positive ones:

manipulated images

by Laura Cherry

what's the story?

create your own:

matchstick fragility of a forgotten tribe:

 climbing away from the earth

or up to the heavens:

you dreamt it: {pause}

time passes: that is all:

doorways for the soul:

 to go in

or come out:

{pause: calmer}

if we all speak at once we'll never get anywhere

by Helen Edling