I braved the wind and rain of the weekend to walk in the woods. Black wood peckers drummed on tall trees, leaves whirled yellow sparks and my favourite rock nestled in the embrace of old roots.
I love the complexity of this rock, the shattered up turned layers of brown thrown against the smooth white Jurassic limestone, held hard in the gnarled pine roots.
John Ruskin loved rocks and drew them meticulously. He taught a generation to observe and to reverence them in nature and in the structures we made from them and the ruins time returned them to.
Cathy's real country garden 
saw a tv prog about JR & he seemed so cruel to his wife – hard to reconcile
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good artists don’t always make good lovers unfortunately.
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Good post and pictures. xx
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Your photo is a lovely composition of rock, wood, and vegetation, Cathy.
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another lovely post-the pictures are beautiful. We both wrote about rocks this week. I love rocks.
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I like how quiet they are!
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I love the rocks and stone very much. I have made my grandsons a stone collection, polished and rough stones, smooth sea stones and also a container of sand. These are for when they are older but already, Max is handling smooth stones with joy.
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They are endlessly fascinating!
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