I took this picture of a mustard field on my regular commute to London. There was a long cycle lane along this field. It crossed many fields and went on for miles and miles.
I dreamt that one day I would take my daughter and go cycling there. Then a month later I fell ill and suspected that I might have had a mild heart attack. I ended up in the hospital across the field and there I dreamt of being able to go back on my regular train journey and be alive to maintain the livelihood of my family. Fortunately it was a false alarm but it did dawn on me that you can’t always leave things to future. A few month later I did take my daughter on that cycle trip. It meant a lot to me but my teenage daughter was rather indifferent about the whole experience. Perhaps when she reaches my age she would look back and then the trip would mean something to her. Come what may, it has been wonderful to be alive and cycle on that lane.
Zurich Zoo
IPAD 1 had just come out but hadn’t reached Zurich and I had just moved there.
Being on my own I went to the Zoo and did some quick sketches and I was unexpectedly surrounded by a bunch of curious kids!
I didn’t mind but I wanted to be left alone to test drive the IPAD for the first time and the idea of a middle aged man on his own drawing the attention of kids wasn’t something I had in mind. I planned to finish the silver back. He was beautiful. There were more sketches of other animals but I didn’t bother uploading them.
A night at Lick Observatory
The Lick Observatory is a working astronomical research institute (optical, so big telescopes!) administered by University of California.
Cuba; how La Habana stole my heart
I'm not going to go over the details of how we got to Cuba because I see them as irrelevant to the bigger picture of the circumstances that came to be. It would also be unpatriotic to reveal the ease of purchasing a ticket with cash money from any one of the dozens of travel agencies throughout Cancun, all selling discrete backdoor entrances into the infamous Pearl of the South.
Turbines
This post was "Freshly Pressed" by Wordpress on Thursday 28 June 2012, my thanks go out to all who have read, liked and commented. It has certainly made for a lively debate!
Love them or hate them, wind turbines are a part of the landscape in many parts of the country now.
Last week I was in East Sussex for a few days, staying in a lovely blue painted clapper board house.
When I was away from home I would sometimes go for long walks.
I liked the effect of evening lights and the shadows.
This is from a book of old photos of Tehran.
