Sometimes...

Sometimes you just need a visit to the seaside for inspiration...

sound inspires thought

light inspires  an open heart

clouds always inspire, no matter what

 A big knot of drying kelp inspires drawing

 or perhaps basket weaving

 slow photography movement

 chasing light once again

 ragged, rugged October late afternoon light

 Sitka bark inspires colour ideas

 texture

 pattern

 It's all there for the taking

An added bit...

I'm inspired by so many things.

Things that take hold of me and give flight to ideas...sometimes they fly, sometimes they float.

Sometimes they never leave the ground.

But...

I am always inspired.

By poetry...

By visual art...

By food...

Recipes...

Music...

Gardens...

 Clouds...

Light and shadow...

And a million other things.

I often think of lines to begin a poem...or the title of a song...the name of a film... the opening line of a great novel...the title of a painting.

So here in a new feature, I will offer up these lines...

For you...

To beg, steal or borrow.

To take, create and make.

Do what you will with them.

Relate to them.

Make up a dream with them.

Most of all have fun. They are free for the taking. 

Embers to fan the flames.

#1:

'She carried in her pocket, a tin full of old moth wings.

Collected most delicately.

Knowing that, one week in August, the Alder groves were full of them.'