Archibald Thorburn (1860 – 1935)
Archibald Thorburn (1860 – 1935) is one of Britain’s best known watercolour artists, particularly known for his pictures of birds and mammals placed in beautiful harmonious landscapes.
By a Brook in Winter - A fresh fall of snow overnight. I walk in a winter landscape: the green fields mantled white; the blackish branches of willow and ash, edged white, starkly outlined, against the morning light; mirrored in the dark brown-grey of the brook; the distant woods a purple haze against the blue-grey snow clouds above. My footsteps the only sound.
Walking upstream from the bridge the stream ceases to be tidal, and turns into a lovely clear running stream with a gravel bed. A flash of yellow; a beautiful male Grey Wagtail bounds away to alight on a boulder under the bank, the reflection of its brilliant yellow plumage in the pool beneath more evident than the bird itself. Another flies to join it at the waters edge - a female - less yellow and without the black bib - their pendulum swings of the tail in ceaseless unison ...
Continue reading Wagtail All
#SenryuJournal #haikuhut #failedhaiku #linkedverse #issue79 Thanks & congratulations dear Vandana Parashar for this collaborative verse.
Grateful to Bryan Rickert, Editor
Here’s the most recent podcast of my short #haiku readings: Longest Day http://anchor.fm/clive-bennett0… @RJefferiesSoc #Nature #Yellowhammer
Thrilled to have two haiku in the latest issue of Hedgerow ... thanks to Caroline Skanne for including them
windblown ...
across the reeds
cuckoo song
between storms the song of a song thrush
#haiku @hedgerowpoems @CarolineSkanne
Thrilled to have two haiku in the latest issue of Hedgerow ~ #haiku #hedgerowpoems @hedgerowpoems
2
My new blog post for @ClinicalPartnrs autism unlocked: What is school anxiety and why does it happen?
https://lsc.autismunlocked.co.uk/family-autism/school/school-anxiety/what-is-school-anxiety-and-why-does-it-happen/
