My normal “Reviewing the Walk” post for “My Walk this Week” at Pagham will be posted with the walk soundscape tomorrow – sorry to anyone that was expecting it today.
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Pagham Boardwalk – Setting (Cropping) the Scene
It’s the combination of lines and textures I like about my choice of image at the head of today’s post about my walk at Pagham on the south coast of England. The photo has been cropped a bit to help provide a better sense of the scene and it is the undulations of the boardwalk as it spans the shingle of the foreshore that initially attracted my eye. Continue reading
Hole in the Wall – A Gift to My Eye
This hole in the wall, found along my walk this week around Pagham Harbour Nature Reserve and shore, was a gift to my eye. Rust, decay, nature taking over – all things enjoyable to me to see.Continue reading
My Walk this Week – South Coast (UK)
My walk this week is on the south coast of England at a place called Pagham. As a location for a StillWalks production walk, I picked it out from aerial views of the place courtesy of Google Maps and Google Earth. It helped that I already had some knowledge of the south coast, though to be fair, some of that comes from BBC programmes like Spring Watch.Continue reading
Leaving the Park – Reviewing the Walk
Leaving Singleton Park in Swansea at the end of my walk this week around the botanic and ornamental gardens, we exited by the north entrance gates and found as much green growth on them as everywhere else in the park.Continue reading
Botanic Beauty in Death
While walking around Swansea’s botanic gardens we came upon a substantial camellia. Being well through Springtime the shrub was completing its cycle, but I find as much beauty in the death of these flowers as in their wonderfully coloured life. We have one in our own garden and every year it is a spectacle to enjoy.Continue reading
Swansea Botanic Yellow
My walk this week around Swansea’s botanic garden in Singleton Park naturally features many colours. Yesterday it was red, today it is the turn for yellow.Continue reading
My Walk this Week – Botanic Colour
My walk this week is perhaps less of a walk and more of a showcase. We had a slow amble round Swansea’s botanic gardens in Singleton Park on a day that was dry but could have been brighter. Well, I say brighter but I mean sunnier as there was plenty of brightness Continue reading