flora – Page 2 – solanoire

a froth of flowers

myriad tiny four-pointed flowerheads of hedge bedstraw

    a froth of flowers
        a floral foam
            an inland shore, of sorts
    – a home

Hedge bedstraw, Cwm Garw, Glamorgan, South Wales
17th June 2021

one bog asphodel standing in orange autumn grasses with Ben Stack in the background

Bog asphodel, Arkle, looking over to Ben Stack, Sutherland, Scotland
16th September 2020

slightly pinkish umbels of hogweed flowers held up against the trees

Hogweed, Cwm Garw, Glamorgan, South Wales
8th July 2020

remannts of dandelion clock hung heavy with rain and misty harbour behind it

Lochinver harbour, Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland
19th May 2020

thick yellow gorse flowers glowing in the setting sun

Àird Ghlas, Lochinver harbour, Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland
8th April 2020

quivering on the lip

white trumpet of hedge bindweed with rain droplets balanced on its upturned lip

Cwm Garw, Glamorgan, South Wales
22nd August 2019

small mat of five-petalled pink flowers

Villingardalsfjall, Viðoy, Føroyar / Faroe
22nd June 2019

the day’s eye slowly opening

pink tipped daisy starting to open

Quinag, Assynt, Scotland
27th May 2019

partially opened crocus with purple-veined white petals and egg-yellow insides

Secret shadows inside the opening crocus, beneath the bare tree branches, behind your face.

What can you see between the fine sepals of your eyelids, in the opening buds of your eyes?

tiny hand curled round my thumb

Priory Park, Crouch End, London, England
26th February 2019

Cwm Garw, Glamorgan, South Wales
16th November 2018