I just watched The Elephant Whisperers on Netflix. I don’t know why it has taken me so long to get round to seeing this short documentary? Beautifully filmed - the scenery, the wildlife - and holding the simplicity and yet depth of the heartfelt human/animal interaction.
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 23: Dreamy suggested by @maique
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 22: Blue suggested by @lzbth
Monday April 22, 2024 Newsletter letter
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Monday April 22, 2024 Olá Friends, This letter is coming to you from Portugal. I arrived here from England two days ago. I had a good time back home but as always found it hard to leave. Hard to leave the UK, hard to leave my mother, hard to leave familiar surroundings and places that hold memories…but life moves on and I had to get down to Portugal ahead of my wife’s arrival this coming week.
😶🌫️ I’m waking up to one of those misty mornings that I sense will transform into a beautiful sunny, and maybe hot day.
Mountains, Rain, and Pat Metheny
Sunday, April 21, 2024
I sit here in 2024 in a house in Portugal, and a piece of music transports me back to 1985, to a hiking hut somewhere in mountains of the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Almost forty years have passed, but the memory is vivid and the effect of that time on my life feels as real now as it did all the way back then. Let me give you some context.
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 21: Mountain suggested by @dejus
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 20: Ice suggested by @the
This photograph shows the terminus of the Batura Glacier in the Karakorum mountains of Pakistan. It sits at around 4,000m (13,123ft), and at the time that I visited the glacier terminated 0.5km from the Karakoram Highway.
🇵🇹 Olá Portugal
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 19: Birthday suggested by me (@crossingthethreshold)
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 18: Mood suggested by @agilelisa
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 17: Transcendence suggested by @drewbelf
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 16: Flâneur suggested by @chrisaldrich
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 15: Small suggested by @jmanes
Monday April 15, 2024 Newsletter letter
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Monday April 15, 2024 Dear Friends, Being home, being back in Britain, always fills my time. Whether that is sitting talking with my mum, catching up with friends (on the phone and in person), or going for walks. Routine is not so present in my life and I find that with that my writing diminishes. I want to write, but find myself either too tired to concentrate or in need to wind down from the last social activity.
☔ It’s pouring outside, and not particularly warm either - Spring, from a few days ago appears to have taken a leave of absence. Right now I am grateful for a roof over my head, and heating in the home.
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 14: Cactus suggested by @christopherchelpka
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 13: Page suggested by @robj
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 12: Magic suggested by @DaveyCraney
April Photoblogging Challenge, Day 11: Sky suggested by @jedda
