A Light Exists In Spring
A Light Exists In Spring By Emily Dickinson A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At...
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WATER IN SLOW MOTION
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COURTOWN BEACH
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BEACH FROTH
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FLOWERS OF SPRING
Suddenly they’re there, a million flowers bursting out of the earth, where before was just...
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THE FIRES OF SEPTEMBER
“O Love, o pure deep Love, be here, be now Be all; worlds dissolve in your endless stainless...
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THE DESPERATE ANGEL
Alexandre Cabanel, Fallen Angel (detail) “Now the thoughtBoth of lost happiness and lasting...
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CHAOS & OLD NIGHT
I’ve had plenty of chaos & old night in my life, from which I’ve run, hidden, or distracted myself. The line is from John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, which has the rebellious angel, Satan, thrown out of heaven for some unconscious act, begin to contemplate the deep realms of hell to which he has been relegated.
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WHAT WOULD YOU GO BACK AND CHANGE?
Our imaginal forgiveness can change the world Posted on March 20, 2018 by menata...
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Domain of Elementals: Leap Castle, Offaly
I had long been enamored of the stories swirling around the eerie Leap Castle in County Offaly....
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The Wild Rugged Beaches of Sonoma
Once over the Golden Gate bridge continue onto highway 1, the infamous coast highway past quaint seaside towns of Bodega Bay, Timber Cove, Jenner and Gualala. You will pass some of the most breathtaking beaches in California.
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Halong Bay, Vietnam
Halong bay is north of Hanoi and a registered World Heritage site. A fantastic place of huge rocky islands called ‘karsts’ that jutt up out of the bay, thousands of them, all trying to out do each other in size or sheer magnificence.
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The Flea Market of St-Ouen de Clignancourt, Paris
Need a Louis XVI giltwood bergère or a mid-century modern coffee table? A bust of Apollo or a granite carved sphinx? Want a 18th century sun-burst mirror with real age spots or a full set of marble stair pulled out of an old chateau?
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The Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
The Musée des Beaux-Arts is located in the centre of the ancient town of Dijon, in what used to be the palace of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy. The architecture is stunning, with its high mansard roof and neo-classical trimmings, it was created slap bang in that last century when the ancien regime was floundering and the flames of revolutionary fervour were being fanned.
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Dawn in Paradise – The Santuary, Thailand
Yes, I’ve been to paradise. From what I’ve seen of the world so far, I would have to say that Thailand still has places that are a little bit of paradise on earth.
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The Louvre Egyptian Collection, Paris
The Louvre Egyptian Collection, Paris
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Saturday Market At The Ferry Building
I love the Saturday market at the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Outside is a veritable explosion of street traders selling all kinds of things, nearer to the building are a number of outdoor restaurants.
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The Doge’s Palace Under Water
The first time I saw Venice, it was in November, time of floods when the water rises and infiltrates St. Mark’s square. We were there for three days and each day the water rose higher until eventually they put up a rough scaffolding of wooden tables lashed together on which you could walk without having to wade through three feet of canal dredge.
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Bob Marley and the Hornbill
Sometimes you amble unawares into the most truly astonishing scenarios, that in retrospect seem like something out of a strange and beautiful dream.
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Skulls and Silence: The Legacy of Pol Pot
Some people say they can’t sleep in Cambodia. I must say I slept pretty well but had very strange dreams.
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Pigeon Point Lighthouse As The Fog Rolls In
The day was beautiful, clear blue Californian skies. But out on the bay the fog had other plans.
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On the Road to Sally Gap With A Storm Coming In
The road to Sally Gap in the Wicklow mountains cuts a swathe through the russet blanket bog with its furze of stunted trees and unfathomable purple heather.
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The Queen of Sapa
The Hmong women of Sapa are a strange breed of delightful entrepreneurs, possessed of ridiculous amounts of guile, persistence and charm when it comes to flogging you the many trinkets they carry around with them.
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The Seduction of Venice
Gazing across from St. Mark’s square to the Isola di Saint Georgio, through a line of bobbing gondolas bedded down in their royal blue coverlets, the distant island seems to float on the very air like some ancient Xanadu from the demented mind of a drug addled poet,
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The Saddest Pharaoh Ever
I love the Egyptian Museum at the Louvre. In fact, no matter how many times I vow to see some of the many other galleries, I always end up here, surrounded by canopic jars and vividly-coloured shabti statues.
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Canal du Midi, Languedoc Roussillon
They call it an incredible feat of civil engineering. They say it is one of the longest canal systems in the world, the most spectacular man-made waterway.
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