Winter holds the hill
Whitewashed steely lifeless fields
Life’s flame flickers on
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Pure magic Seonaid – truly wonderful 🙂
Many thanks Andrew
I feeel Winter’s grip …. but there’s warmth within .
Lovely both Seonaid .
Thanks Poppy, it was winter magic in the hills just behind Edinburgh✨
Such a classically balanced and beautiful image! And I love your rabbit watercolor. (Got here through hour of soft light).
Hurray for hour of soft light…who is a lovely and inspiring person💕
Hold the hill, it does! 🙂 Wonderful turn of phrase.
Thanks Jo, I was imagining Winter taking a stand and drawing a battleline….while also gripping the earth in a cold hard fist! I do love a good play on words 🙂
I feel like running to that tiny warm glow and enjoy the coziness of the fire. Nicely captured.
That’s exactly what I was dreaming of doing!
Just magical, the tiny light glows so bright and leads the eye right into the heart of this lovely photo.
That’s just what I was hoping to achieve, thank you😆✨
Simplicity at its best!
A very muted colour palette indeed!
I just love this .. your words and the pic are divine. And that twinkling light – how very special 😀
When I saw the light in the window I just had to try to capture that feeling of life’s fragility in the heart of winter💕 Delighted you enjoyed the results Xx
Calming winter beauty!
Not quite as much snow as you have😆 but pretty none the less. It feels like winter now❄️
Exquisite words and photograph.Would love to be at the other end of the perspective to see what else there is out there…
Lots of hills, rolling away through a cluster of reservoirs, and we saw swans and geese flying down to the water for the night✨
Lovely–I can imagine this. 🙂
I’m not quite sure why, for I know we’re supposed to think about the life we can see in the cabin, hold up for winter. But I immediately thought about life’s flame still alight, though frozen in the cold ground and within the very cold waters of the lake. That’s even more amazing, don’t you think? D
Well you’re not far from my thinking as I wrote the haiku…I was thinking of the life suspended within the frozen earth….waiting to burst forth come spring….as well as the life protected in the warm shell of the house✨💕✨And all of it is amazing!
Too cold for me, but magical from this distance 🙂
It was indeed cold, but so pretty with the snow…..and the imagined fire within the farmhouse. We stopped for hot chocolate beside a big wood burning stove, at an Inn at the foot of the hills once the cold got too much✨❄️✨
What a lovely image. I was hoping for snow too but in this mild and wet climate in the south west of Ireland….no such luck but I keep hoping.
Love your blogs.
Eileen
Thanks Eileen, delighted to have you visit💕You’re in another beautiful part of the world….
A really magical winter image, Seonaid. Perfect haiku!
I love that winter feeling of life gathering in around a fire or a candle or two…as the dark and cold push in at our backs. Delighted you enjoyed this💕
Moody and wondrous. Thank you.
A chilly mood indeed✨❄️✨
Fabulous – you can feel the cold
Yes, it really was cold….and started snowing again shortly after I took this shot…..the hill disappeared into the whitening sky!
What a gorgeous photo! So still and peaceful, albeit a bit chilly.
Definitely chilly, it was around zero and shortly after I took this shot it started snowing❄️😊❄️
Yes, life does flicker on… I can see the glow. Frosty the snowman definitely visited your area of the world spreading his joy. Stay warm. Your picture and words are as beautiful as always. Thanks.
I am trying to stay warm Gwynn, as it has turned very cold this week. We’ve had the fire lit all week, and many layers are added before we venture outdoors!
This so sums up for me the energy of midwinter. Lovely haiku and photo. Reminds me rather of where I used to live 🙂
That must have been amazing to live high on a hill like this, I’m sure you have some magical memories.
Looking back at some of my fiction, a lot of those memories have embedded themselves…
Ah, isn’t that wonderful💕
Wondrous! 🙂
Many thanks 🙂
Absolute magic, Seonaid. Thank you.
My pleasure John
What a wonderful pboto. Your haiku suits it very well.
Thanks Suzanne, it was such an isolated farmhouse and on a very cold day….I was fantasising about knocking on the door and sitting in beside a roaring fire!!
Yes, it does look like a lovely place to visit.