Abstract ‘Blue stone texture’

Abstract ‘The confrontation’

Water lily after rain

Influence from the East

Wave (3)

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Patterns on the goldfish pond

Abstract 135 ‘Wet feather’

Crocosmia

Buddleia

Lobelia cardinalis

Wave (2)

At the heart of the Clematis

 

 

Abstract 302

Lichen pattern

Picasso Vermeer Calla Lily

‘William woz ere!’

 

This broken down tree root in the New Forest evoked stories  of events that occurred a thousand years ago.  The Forest was created by King William I  (William the Conqueror)  when he ruthlessly drove the residents of 36 parishes from their homes in order to claim the land for his hunting activities.  On William’s death, the Forest was inherited by his son, also a William (William Rufus)  William Rufus was not popular and died in a shooting ‘accident’ in the forest, although there remains a strong suspicion that he was assassinated.

So, maybe William was here, even if this particular tree wasn’t!