New favourite tree. Not many around this size, but it's as good as the cherries.

Chiaroscuro Sunday. I'd forgotten how much I like looking at and thinking about art. Knew the light and dark style, but not what a wild character Caravaggio was. The 4th frame shows a view which wasn't named but I knew it immediately. Clue: it's the Lake District.

I've camped beside Scottish seas four times. Miraculously avoiding midges, astonishingly free from wind; summery in a sand dune north and on Mull with this mist and flower morning.

Bright new green, I watch for these flowers every year.

For years I'd heard about Faulkner but never read him. This prose is so good I've got the book & will be reading him: "Love no more exists just at one spot and in one moment and in one body out of all the earth and all time and all the teeming breathed than sunlight does."

Walk and phone snaps with snow, ice, fog, sunshine and a lake. I don't like winter but there is this to enjoy.

The River and the Tree. I'm not sure how fast the buds form after autumn but I suspect it's almost immediately, ready for the next spring. Anyway I like seeing them.

"Return from a short distance
No need for remorse
Great good fortune"
- Return, I Ching hexagram 24. At the solstice, old declining yin changes into new arising yang.

"There’s so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature" - Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

"But you gotta dance, said Haruki Murakami."

Thinking about about systems, psychology, and I Ching philosophy.

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Finally some sun today. "In nature, it is the wind that disperses the gathered clouds, leaving the sky clear and serene" - I Ching hexagram 57. You wouldn't know it, but this is a Snowdonian hill.

"In the autumn electricity withdraws into the earth again and rests" - I Ching hexagram 17. Some autumn leaves remaining but a new winter arrival. So retreat, withdraw, with inside not outside energy.

"In the final scene, listening to Nina Simone’s Feeling Good, he smiles at one moment and cries the next."

Wim Wenders film Perfect Days, and the Book of Changes.

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