Steve Bucknell's photos

A WOODLAND FLUTE ………………….BETULA ……………… .PENDULA ……….…..CARPINUS ………………BETULUS ………………..VIBURNUM ………………..OPULUS ……………….POPULUS ………….…TREMULA ……………..…PRUNUS

LITTLE FIELDS LONG HORIZONS LITTLE FIELDS LONG FOR HORIZONS HORIZONS LONG FOR LITTLE FIELDS -Ian Hamilton Finlay. Little Sparta.

From the garden, looking out to Dunsyre and Lanarkshire.

“Marsyas, a celebrated but reckless flautist, challenged the god Apollo to a flute playing contest, which he predictably lost. Apollo tied him to a tree and flayed him alive. The use of French implicates the French revolutionary proponent of the Terror, Saint-Just, who was, like Apollo, renowned for his beauty. The great head emerging from the ground suggests that the rest of a huge statue remains to be excavated.” Little Sparta. A Guide to the Garden by Jessie Sheeler.

Some sky and light oozing and running along the saturated forest floor this morning.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son.

Collage. Tear and share, as they say.

Window on a very steep run of stairs to the parvis, a chamber above the north porch of St.Andrews church, Stoke Dry, Leicestershire. Persistent local legend - unproven we might add - says that the Gunpowder plotters met here to plan their attempt on the life of James I. Well worth a visit, and the tiny local village keeps it open to the public! I’m so grateful that people take the time and trouble to do this.Spiritual rewards must accrue. There are good photos of the many treasures of this remarkable church on the Internet…but this is my own sideways glimpse, while on my knees, in fear of falling, on the stairs. You won’t find this on the Internet anywhere but here!

From the white heat of Lake Ballard to the rocks of Sadell across to Arran… From the quicksands of Crosby to Margate, connecting, connecting… From the Uffizi, pura essenza, to the Angel of the North, and here, a kind of Virgil will guide me down Euston Road to the Crypt of St. Pancras

Ventilation grille, Graves Gallery, Sheffield

Door to the crypt of St. Pancras Parish Church

Ceramic sculpture. Pea J. Restall