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a quiet moment to end the week My Friday Image with  the words "Hope Means Hoping Even When Things Seem Hopeless' to Encourage Your Weekend Waiting for the mist over lift. I came across these words "Hope Means Hoping Even When Things Seem Hopeless" earlier this week, and thought they matched well with the image near Pugs Hole in Wiltshire, UK. There are times when life feels like this landscape. The way ahead is there, but you cannot properly see it. The wider shape of thing

Let your eyes search the still dark areas to the left middle, the writhing water of the foreground slipping into the fast moving runnel that carries your eye back towards the sun. Within a short while the mist will be gone, and you will see other things - but for now, love the moment

I noticed this piece of broken glass on the beach yesterday morning and was taken with the whole idea that despite being essentially broken and of no value for it's original purpose, it had been smoothed by it's path backwards and forwards across the beach over many tides; and in doing so had developed a beauty of it's own for those who looked and saw, and appreciated the way the light changed it.

I noticed a little “face” in this weathered plank of wood – knots for eyes, a small, tired mouth. Years of rain, sun and pressure have carved out something strangely human. It reminded me of a line from a prayer by Joshua Luke Smith: “You are both a work of art, and an artist at work.”

I went for a pint and a think at the Horseshoe Inn. Looking brought me to seeing, and that in turn led to this image. And now to the reflection on the reflections.

The truth of these words struck me as I looked at this oak leaf, gradually trading it's verdant green for rusty gold.