It's really hard to colour correct the photo for this drawing but it's pretty close.

Marram grass โ€“ Fairbourne - Drawing โ€“ Ink - Paint โ€“ on watercolour paper โ€“ 29x42cm โ€“ Linda Sgoluppi

Blades stand in close clusters, meeting what arrives and drawing it into their hold. At times a fierce force drives through them, tearing across their length, pressing them low and setting them into motion as a single body before they gather and rise again. Sand gathers at their bases and settles, held in place as it accumulates and rises in small shifts.

Each movement is taken in and returned more slowly, the surface lifting and holding as stems remain anchored within it. Light passes across the uneven forms, slipping between upright lines and tracing the subtle growth they make together.

What reaches them is not lost but held, and the shape of the dune is built in the holding.

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#FootpathFriday from a hike the other day. It's grey again today. Where have all those blue skies gone?





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Day 84 in colour.

Thirty minutes later we were driving through a mini blizzard in the mountains.

Also, as peaceful as this scene looks, you wouldn't want to have been there to hear me screaming obscenities at (and into) the blistering cold wind to chill the fuck out so I could get a single decent shot of these damn reeds! ๐Ÿ˜…






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Day 82
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#MonochromeMarch

#Bridge over the #River #Conwy

The busiest little 15th century, two-way, one lane bridge in the county. I have no proof of this but based on my observations and infinite patience today, I'm calling it.









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(zine permission granted)

Today is the last full day in my spiritual home for now. A month here has helped reduce the background anxiety I've felt for some time (some specifics and some not). I hope some of the tranquility stays with me. For sure I will miss the sea and the dark skies.

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