Winter Landscape with Church - Caspar David Friedrich

 

Winter tunnel with snow - David Hockney

 

Winter Day - Pekka Halonen

 

Hunters in the Snow - Pieter Brueghel

 

Log men by the camp fire - Pekka Halonen

 

Boulevard de Clichy under Snow - Norbert Goeneutte

 

Advent snow

 

Glacons, effet blanc - Claude Monet

 

Snow at Louvieciennes - Alfred Sisley

 

Train in the snow - Claude Monet

 

Winter in Hersted - Peder Mark Monsted

 

The Rooks Have Returned (1871) - Alexey Savrasov

 

Street in the Evening, Prague (1875) - Jakub Schikadeder

 

Winter landscape - Hendrich Avercamp

 

The road at Giverny in winter - Claude Monet

 

Purple and yellow

Always good colours together. And these in a window at Ognisko looked sensational. But perhaps that was after the benefit of a large glass of white.  Before an amazing concert at the Royal College of Music. Pappano conducting.

If only it were this easy

Constable makes painting clouds look easy. If only!
This spotted at the Ashmolean today.

This wonderful cherry blossom at Quod on the High Street.  A good breakfast.

Coach rolling by Stonehenge

Love this Turner print - a mezzotint. Very atmospheric. Stonehenge (1924).

Someone said this morning that in our lifetimes we've moved not to another age but another era - which started at the turn of the 21st century.

Notes on pilgrimage July 2019

Gerard Hughes (In Search of the Way) on the uninhabited Scottish island. Most people would not have the resources to cope - not just physically, but mainly mentally.
p123 "The pilgrim must travel light, otherwise he cannot continue on his way."
p 124 "Unless you lose your life, you cannot find it."
Both of Hughes' sisters committed suicide: he seems tough. There is no talk of depression.
He said that his family didn't go on seaside holidays but visited the relics of saints.

p108 "Our whole life and character is contained in any incident, no matter how trivial it seems."


- George Borrow, like many other long distance walkers, was a depressive

Other books:
In Praise of Walking/Thomas Clark
The Path to Rome/Hilaire Belloc

A day trip to Durham and fish and chips by the sea

A 500-mile round trip from King's Cross but worth it...
A wedding at the church in Kelloe - then fish and chips on the beach at Seaham where there is a huge metal statue of a World War One soldier on the front. Traditionally people picked up coal on the beach at Seaham. Still the odd bit to be found....