I am seldom at a loss for words

They look almost black in the early morning darkness!

I see reflections everywhere on Autumn mornings like this one .... it’s a time of year when the world seems to be in repose .... gathering itself together for the onslaught of winter. The waves are non-existent early in my day and the sea is like a sheet of glass .... nothing moves ....  except the seagulls when they think a free meal is looming. Tranquility and serenity abound and I wish, for

just an instant, that I could freeze-frame this moment in time and the emotions it generates. I try to reflect that in my images ... but sometimes, despite the quality of the image, the mood is missing ... it’s an incredibly difficult thing to capture through the lens.


It’s apt that reflections are catching my eye on my rambles, just as reflections on life are capturing

my mind. The more reflections I see through the lens of my camera, the more I reflect on the happenings in my life ... both good and bad, sad and happy, the emotional highs and lows and the whole gamut of emotions in between.


Walking with Carol and seeing the genuine outpourings of sympathy for her over the loss of Sebastian are probably what’s prompted my thoughts on reflection. Whenever she talks to someone about Sebastian, she reflects on the wonderful life he had, the marvelous memories they made together and she remembers his quirky nature and sometimes stubborn attitude.

Gorgeous Indy ... he LIKES my hound's welsh ball!

What a gift it is that we have this ability to reflect on the past and to choose what we want to remember. Reflections on life are unique to each of us ... my life is the only one exactly like it anywhere in the world. No-one has experienced the moments in my life as I have, no-one has felt the same emotions as I have at exactly the same time, no-one has

Waiting to be told to eat their treats .... should have found a fig leaf for Indy!

had the same sequence of thoughts about what I am doing and why I am doing it ..... only me.


Hmmmmm ..... reflecting allows me to be idle ... and that’s not necessarily a good thing ... or is it? I should be working, creating, manufacturing .... but my mind’s off on a tangent. 

Is it IDLE to be reflecting ..... reflections of an idle mind ..... surely if I’m reflecting, then my mind isn’t idle. Idleness really, is a non-goal orientated activity - an ability to be in the “here and now” .... something my hound and 4-legged creatures like her have down pat.

My mind is ANYTHING but idle .... there are a thousand and one thoughts going through it at any one time ... a thousand and one opinions I have on a thousand and one things. I am seldom at a loss for words ... as my family will attest .... and I generally have an opinion on most things.

Just love the reflections of the seagulls!

Isn’t that what opinions are though ... my musings or reflections based on what I’ve experienced in my life. Isn’t that what all of us do when we express an opinion on something? We reflect ..... or “look within” our minds to recreate an experience or feeling we had and base our opinion on that. Our minds are powerful tools .... on a SUB-CONSCIOUS level, our minds have the capacity to process 400 billion bits of information per second .... another nugget of inane information courtesy of Google, my favourite arbiter of all things knowledgeable.

Abi LOVES the treats in my pocket!

So it’s good for my mind to be “idle” .... it’s good to give it the space to process the wealth of information I glean from my everyday activities .... especially my rambles! I should bask in this time of mental idleness ... it’s certainly not physical idleness ... and just allow my sub-conscious mind to do what it does best!

The word "GREEN-ER" and an arrow .... why??

A family was having a photo-shoot on the beach with their car ...

..... all sitting on the car!

Tonight's awesome sunset!