Henry Moore-Outside

in Kew Gardens, Spring 2008

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O you’ll tak’ the high road

and I’ll tak’ the low road
And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye….

or not as the case may be as none of these are of Loch Lomond.

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except for the weather…

and the cold sea it would be heaven.
…and the haggis of course.

 

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Like a worm…

on a hook
like a knight from some old fashioned book

Back to black….for balance.

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In my country garden, underneath the mountain

With dead-nettles growing all around the door
Early every morning the sun comes up the mountain
Setting in the fields in the evening once more.
 

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“Fiery the Angels rose…”

 
and as they rose deep thunder roll’d around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc.”

 

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C-beams glitter…

 
in the dark near the Tannhauser gate

 

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All those moments…

 

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Me and my son…

a hill did climb
so steep we took
a zigzag line.
Well I did. He just went straight up.

Words by Ralph McTell
Mountains by Mother Nature
Weather by Scotland

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portrait….

of a young man

Large portrait by Yoshida san.
Polaroids by Poladroid.
Son by me.

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Loch Eck, Argyll

Just a few photos taken many years ago with a beat up old camera….but the memories of this place go back much further, almost 50 years.
And one taken in March of this year.

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within five minutes…..

by car

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within five minutes…..

on foot

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My camera was broken…..

so I borrowed Mark Rothko’s.
The foothills of Kaikoma (甲斐駒) from Fujimi (富士見).
 

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every day…..

I come home to this:
Kaikoma (甲斐駒) from just in front of my house:

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there’s no escaping it

because even though I’ve never lived there for more than a month or two at a time at most it still feels like home.
I’d probably like it less if I had to live there but even with it’s awful weather and dour, serious people it fits me like an old pair of shoes that I [...]

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the herding instinct kicks in

By way of introduction:

The beach is still there.
The man is not

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