The aim of this series is to help people find relaxation in solitude so though we are visiting many locations is is not our intention to ba an advertising board for the travel and tourism industry. There is no need to spend much money to find beauty and interest close to where you live, in your home even as some pages will show. What could be simpler and more available to everybody than a walk in the park. In some areas you need to be careful to choose a time when there are plenty of people about but mostly parks are quite safe. By using them of course we reclaim them especially if we are public spirited enough to inform the right authorities when we suspect public spaces are being used for improper purposes. So with the warning "be careful and think things through," let's take a walk in the park. There is a lot to be gained from taking a similar route, not identical or it just becomes habit, but close enough to let you be aware of the subtle changes in the landscape, the inevitable process of birth, death and rebirth. In the picture here the season is spring, shortly after what would have been New Year's Day in the Christian calendar used until the sixteenth century. That change occurred when Christmas replaced Easter as the principal festival in the Christian year. From this point, with the blossoms in full bloom there will be a succession of equally colourful stages and eventually after the season when trees are clad "in sere and yellow leaf" as Shakepeare put it, even the barren winter has its own bleak beauty which is enhanced by the knowledge that in time everything will be green and blooming again.

Photo source Ian R Thorpe at Flickr

MEDITATIONS The front page to our Meditations menu contains the article "Have We Forgotten How To Be" and some good advice in rediscovering the art of just being.

Sunsets Heading For Harbour
In The Skerries
The Old Gravel Pit
Walks Wycoller.
A Walk In The Park
Strolling On The Beach
Aysgarth Falls
Industrial Nightmare
Moments To Linger