People walk so quickly by,
eyes down, phones in hand,
always in a hurry, why?
April, May, June, July ……. 4 months pass in the blink of an eye.
Will they look up when all is gone ?
When cliffs have crumbled, footpaths tumbled, down into a rising sea.
I stand and gaze at racing clouds and listen to the wind,
See reflections in a rain soaked lane and hedgerows filled with flowers
The people walking quickly by will never see a changing cloud,
a falling leaf, a butterfly.
But if they pause and raise their heads,
By looking longer they may see the wonders in the sky.
Lin Adams ( July 2023)
As an artist I am always looking at colour, changing seasons and landscapes.Nature is my inspiration.
I only wish more people could take time out to “smell the roses” and look at everything around them. Walking in some gardens in Somerset recently I noticed the following wise words written a few hundred years ago by a botanist….
“Wonder at everything even the most everyday things”
Wise words indeed.
Blue lake at Steeple Langford. (Wiltshire Wildlife Trust)
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