Landscape becomes alive to us when its beauty fills us with personal delight and a fulfilling sense of wonder. This was certainly true of 19th century country writer Richard Jefferies. For him, his own native Wiltshire was his ‘beloved land’.
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Another walk with John Clare is due. Winter is certainly smiling today. It’s a clear crisp morning. In the night the secret ministry of frost has been at work.
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As dusk settles on a November evening we wait in expectation. We are about to watch one of autumn’s wildlife wonders. Such displays in the natural world offer healing and peace in our troubled human world.
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The delightful river Dart, loved by all who know it, is one of Devon’s jewels. Small, homely and intimate, it meanders from its source on Dartmoor through the South Devon countryside to the sea at Dartmouth. In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Dartmouth in The Mayflower bound for a New World in America.
Above photo by Edwardsian – wikipedia.
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A Listening Heart 