Crafty Green Poet

A brief heavy downpour -almost tropical- stops ....................................... suddenly dark clouds lift a pale rainbow swifts dance...

This is Sugar, the daughter of Daisy , Gorgie City Farm's star bunny. She seems to actually be happier to pose for the camera than her m...

The riverbanks profuse with flowers, the hot pink of rosebay willow herb, the bright white of umbellifers and the various yellows of too ma...

This is the new shed and garden composting area in the backgreen, built by the Green Caretakers, who operate the Backgreen Initiative and p...

garden party - I'm told not to let flowers distract me. Vipers Bugloss (the wonderful blue and purple stem of flowers in the middle of t...

As I've mentioned previously in this blog, the backgreen garden behind our flat is part of one of the areas chosen for regeneration by t...

Edwin Morgan is for me without doubt the greatest Scottish poet. His work is consistently vivid and verbally inventive. His issue based work...