Stillness

 

‘Solitude’: Rydal Water, Cumbria, The Lake District, UK … Pen & Ink – WHB 1991  ©

 

 

This stillness and the beauty all around me

Bring with them peace and grace for which I yearn;

For here among the lakes and mountains resting

I sense my hopes and dreams will now return.

 

For now I’ve reached a time when life has bitten,

Reminding me of pleasures once enjoyed;

Since lost in cares and daily obligations

How Nature can supplant and fill the void.

 

Its healing powers I know and cannot question;

They bring delights I cannot bear to miss.

They sing to me of other loves and places,

And speak to me of other times than this.

 

 

The Lake District

[ Photo Blog #48 ]

England, Cumbria, The Lake District

Never far from water in the Lake District

My photographs, taken several years ago on what would now be considered to be an old camera

Ambleside Pierhead on Lake Windermere

Evening at Ambleside Pierhead on Lake Windermere

Bridge crossing the River Derwent in Borrowdale

The Landing Jetty and Coniston Launch at Brantwood on Coniston Water

On Buttermere

The ‘Sentinels’ on Buttermere, the Lake District’s most photographed trees.

The Steam Yacht on Coniston Water

Derwentwater at Keswick

Thirlmere

Skelwith Force

Autumn colours near Skelwith Bridge, Ambleside