New Year Walk 2015 (by sarah)
A new year is upon us and after a night of much fun and poetry writing and the such like it was time to do lots of DIY and go for a walk. We went to the Forest of Dean. We love walking but it has not always been a possible pass time, this year we hope that will not be the case.
In all aspects life is exciting and uncertain at the moment but in good ways and Mary is starting to actually like walks through trees though she was still very glad to get back to the car much to Jean's disappointment - she wanted to run around in the "wilds" more.
We found a dragon pretending to be a tree - no really!
Alaric got stares and stares and stares (there were a lot of people about), I don't know if it was the three pairs of legs, the cloak, pink/purple hair or the Christmas Pudding hat - he say's they looked like they were worried he was a weirdo who would eat their dogs or something - I don't think he was wrong. The girls loved it.
I thought he looked brilliant - he said the Christmas Pudding hat was the least surprising of the combo for the norms 🙂
We found a river - it had been bound - like the rest of the forest.
It is sad and wonderful at the same time.
We thought on resolutions and projects and goals and wants and wishes as we walked round the lake.
One of mine is I want to post my stuff here more rather than being sucked into Facebook - having said that there is a 2015 Walks album but I plan to post one or two pics from each walk only - we plan on there being a lot of walks. People have been asking me to do more of the poetry photo twitter things I sort of started doing accidently this year just gone - ah what happens when you get a smart phone.
My camera is a bit broken so it started to act up at this point - but there were birds - lots and lots of them - they seemed happy 🙂
I love the muted colours of winter - greys and browns that seem smudged together and expectant.
Some of the birds were walking on water - there was some ice but not sure if they weren't just birds that do that - with the surface tension. It was still a wonder what ever.
The day light was beginning to go bringing the first day of the new year to a kind of close - we are expectant and awed by this year already and what ever happens it will be busy but fluid, adaptable and hopefully lovely.
There are writing projects and events including being guest poet and lunching a comic book - there is cuddly science and knitting, metal work and house decorating, there are friends and family and climbing. Mary and Jeany are progressing at astounding rates something that should not slow. We look forward to sharing parts of their adventures as they explore the world around them.
Happy New Year.
Alaric, Domestic, Events and Outings, Jean, Mary, Sarah, The Family | sarah | 
Fri 2nd Jan 2015 7:33 am
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