I am mixing my senses here, but I do tend to a degree of synaesthesia when describing colour and its intensity. Whilst supersonic really relates to speed, it is the word that keeps coming to me when I look at these pictures of the bright border and need a word to describe the intensity of…
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Beautiful Bokeh
I learnt this term a few months ago, shortly after I purchased my new camera. Bokeh is the Japanese word for ‘blur’. It describes the blurry, blobby, smeary or smudgy background you get against the foreground image which is in focus. I like the way that the smudgy bokeh radiates outwards from the ink-splash shape…
The Morning Mist
It has been a scorching couple of weeks. It has been five weeks since our last rainfall. Then yesterday the heavens opened. I was driving home under the raincloud, hoping it would come with me all the way home. It did, and the garden got a much-needed drenching for twenty minutes. The temperature didn’t drop,…
I’m not beautiful. I’m feisty.
This is a quote from my step-daughter. To give you some context, we were having a discussion about someone being beautiful. ‘Like you. You’re beautiful.’ ‘No I’m not. I’m feisty!‘ I love this. I love that she chose feistiness over beauty. She is feisty. And beautiful. But she chose to identify as feisty. When I…
The Mindful Gardener 