The Lord speaking: ‘Execute true judgement, and show mercy and compassion to your brothers and sisters and don’t oppress the widows and the fatherless, the strangers and the poor. And don’t let any of you imagine evil about your brother or sister.’
Zechariah 7: 9,10 ( Sandy’s summary of what was written so long ago about 572BC)
We walked four and a half miles, a gentle up and down along the paths of the chalk hills dried and drained after a few days with little rain.
The sky grew darker as we walked with distant rumbles and flashes of lightening in the distance. The air carried the smell of a preparing full spring.
Four views of the Chiltern hills as we walked them with a change of sky and a feel of evening coming.
The start
The middle
Towards the end.
It doesn’t rain here.
Then a noticeable tree.
The centre of attention
There you stand limbs outstreched
Other trunks tall and straight, bar the full view of your embracing vulnerability.
It is the first day of spring when we see you
waiting
We are waiting, you can do but we can't do
Patience for spring
It is yours to show!
There you stand fully extended in browns preparing the greens of spring.
Patience
Spring is yours to show!
By
Sandy 🙂
Let us travel with the word stretch:
‘It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles. It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch, to love and let go again and again.’
Marge Piercy
‘Every now and then a person’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.’
Oliver Wendell Holmes
‘ Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil above water.’
Miguel de Corrantes
Take care,
Sandy 🙂
The rolling hills are beautiful and I love that old center tree, very striking ❤️
Thank you, Donna. Funny how sometimes nature calls to be photographed. That tree did.