Esther Chiltons weekly prompt

Posted on January 22, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Brain, Esther Chiltons weekly prompt, Media, Questioning, Thinking, WordsLeave a comment

Beauty

Esther asked us to write about beauty this week. I struggled to explain what I think of the word. I wrote :

Beauty can be on the inside, you don’t have to look amazing to be alive and well thought of. If people could read your thoughts? How would they interpret them. Odd or plain, ugly or old? It’s your brain and thought processes are important. Consider the world around you and how people are perceived. Media makes things worse.

But then I thought am I talking about personal, intellectual beauty? In the case of the word should I just look at beauty as form? Like a lovely rose? As how I feel about a wonderful day or a landscape? There are so many connotations to the word.

A hero’s name?

Posted on August 22, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged ancestor, beast, Beauty, Comedy, Funny, generations, Hero, heroic, History, odd name, silly name, TimeLeave a comment

I think we mainly assume that a hero will be called Prince Caspian or something similar. Being of noble blood, and handsome. Fairytale books and films lead us to this definition. Only stories like Beauty and the Beast where at the end the Beast turns into a handsome Prince slightly subverts this.

But what happens if the hero has an ordinary or odd name? Maybe Euphonio Grunt-Ffungus? His name being a long lost memory from generations ago of the families profession of truffle hunting!

What heroical task would Euphonio complete? Would he rescue a cat from on top of a giraffe? Fight off a venomous kangaroo? Hide chocolate from a dragon? Kill a giant spider that’s threatening to engulf the palace?

I think this kind of hero would be in a comic fantasy, not a serious story. But we cannot chose our names, let alone our ancestors.

Coppery

Posted on May 18, 2024May 18, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Dorothy Clive garden, Fibonacci, Leaves, Metallic, Plant, Sheen, Spiral, SucculentLeave a comment

Seen at the Dorothy Clive garden. In their new glass house. I love the metallic sheen on it and the spectacular spiral placement of the leaves. It probably links to a Fibonacci number. That’s a specific pattern of how spirals interact. Like the centers of sunflower heads.

Bench

Posted on May 18, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Bench, bloom, Colour, Dorothy Clive garden, fields, Flowers, Green, Life, Poem, Poetry, Rhododendrons, SpringLeave a comment

Why are you facing inwards bench?

Can’t you see the beautiful view?

The green and yellow hills

Beyond the fence…

Tiny farmhouses dotted alongside feilds

Sun shining on a golden harvest?

But I look in, said the bench

I see the quarry garden

Dug out of soil and stone

Carved into a bowl

Lined with rhododendrons

Azaleas, beech trees, oaks

Full of colour now, gaudy flowers

A waterfall splashes and ploshes

In the quarry cauldron

Hidden sculptures in maze like paths

Yes beyond the fence is lovely

But the Dorothy Clive garden is special.

Church window

Posted on November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged All Saints church, Beauty, Church, Colours, Fine Art, Historical, Leek Road, Light, Stained glass, Stoke-on trent6 Comments

Gorgeous window at All Saints church on Leek Road Stoke-on-Trent. The colours really are bright and spectacular. This is at the rear of the church (but on the left hand side looking from the road). It’s such a busy road, it’s surprising how clean it looks. Whether it was washed for the ceramics festival, I don’t know.

Lilies

Posted on October 5, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Beauty, beetle, Cat, Dangerous, Flowers, harmful, July, Lily, Photo, Poisonous, Pollen4 Comments

Consider the lilies…. Don’t plant them near the front of plant borders, the pollen is poisonous to cats. They can shed a lot of pollen which cats can breathe in or it can fall on them and they lick it off when they wash.

But if you can plant them safely they are beautiful and showy. But beware of lily beetles. They are big red shiny beetles that can munch and destroy lilies. I’m afraid they need removing and squashing if you want to save the plants.

10 years ago

Posted on August 7, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 10 years ago, Back yard, Beauty, Bright, Colour, Flowers, Gardening, Growth, Life, PlantsLeave a comment

Facebook memories from 10 years, ago. The yard was much near we, and sunnier as the hedge, at the back wasn’t as overgrown. I love all the colours that were growing there then. When I’m back in my feet I must take new pictures

Dorothy Clive garden today

Posted on May 21, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Day out, Dorothy Clive garden, Gardening, Life, Montage, Plants, Rhododendrons, visit today2 Comments

A few miles from Stoke on Trent in the Staffordshire countryside is the Dorothy Clive garden. We went there today because I knew the rhododendrons would be in flower and also I wanted to see if I could drive that far (my arm is still shaking and very sore and it’s hard to drive). Luckily I was OK and it was a gorgeous day and a lovely place to visit. You walk up from the car park at the bottom, past the pool, up a steepish slope covered in trees and flowerbeds. There is a cafe at the top and a dry garden and quarry garden at the top (where the majority of the rhododendrons are). There is also a stag sculpture and a waterfall. From the top of the garden you can see three counties, Staffordshire, Cheshire and Shropshire. Worth a day out….

Fed up

Posted on May 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Beauty, Fed up, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sad, Thinking, wishes2 Comments

If I could spread flowers

Beneath my feet

And perfume the air

If I could make manna

From heaven, fall

If I could grow fruit

With taste and tang, sweet

Surround myself in clouds

Of lovely hue?

I’d STILL

Be fed up!

Hmph!

Mallaband-Brown

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