Keeping going

Its still march, in fact I have just surprised myself as to how soon I have got back to the blog. The motivation to carry on has been waning a little. I think it is more to do with doing other things than anything else. I have updated the website to an extent (www.vertrouge.co.uk) and although it is much better than before, which was good for version 1, version 2 needs some refinements and in some places completing.

I am still trying and most days succeeding in walking, and generally getting more exercise and as an adjunct taking my camera and seeing what "inspires".

A couple of weeks ago I dragged my two girls or should I say they dragged me around the Hayhead Reserve in Walsall and walked though one of my Childhood play areas "Cuckoos Nook and the Dingle"

Trying to take pictures in a composed manner was nigh on impossible. Well what did I expect ...

I did catch this very tame Robin who came up close as we rested between bouts of major noise production and running around with no particular direction. I am quite amazed how long it was before the moans of "Daddy! Can I have a carry" floated through the woodland.

Otherwise I have spent most of my "walking time up and down the River Severn in Shrewsbury. Slowly perceptible signs of Spring have begun to appear. The temperature and general lack of sun seems to have slowed everything down. Finally over the last few weeks various flowers have appeared, including these hardy fellows.

Walking up and down, what is a relatively small stretch of the Severn around Shrewsbury, I have started "noticing " the things that float in the River, the Flotsam and Jetsam, as it were. At the moment the most visible "natural " floating items are feathers, mainly white, which sit on the surface and are carried quite quickly downstream.

On top of this there is the cast off material, the Jetsam. To be honest there do seem to be a lot of empty bottles of varying descriptions. There does seem to be no covert message in any. I will leave you to identify the overt ones.

This at the moment is my favourite of the floating pictures. The leaf has begun to sink below the surface but is still holding on and I could work out lots of imagery and continue to deconstruct for some indeterminate amount of time.

However I have decided that it is time to go to bed and to come back soon.