haiku

Seagulls on the beach
their calls the loneliest sound
even in vast flocks

Late Flowering

I don’t like farmland bursting into flower
on the edge of town
red splashed with poppies rising
tall above vetches and secret plants.

All this bright colour

a last brave show
of hope from seeds
freed from farming
for a brief time until

all is lost to concrete.

Bracelet

This bracelet is made from a strange net like material that I have no memory of where it came from! I laced through some silver ribbon that came from gift wrap and sewed on some bead type flowers. It's fastened with gift ribbon at the back. I made it at a workshop organised by Bits and Bobs, the Edinburgh Scrapstore.

Cow Parade Comes to Edinburgh

Coloured cows hover

from the roof of the museum.

Normal life goes on.

Visit the CowParade website at:

www.cowparade-edinburgh.co.uk/

Green Design exhibition

There's a lovely little exhibition on at the Museum of Scotland at the minute. Green Design exhibits wonderfully innovative examples of environmentally friendly design - from a coffee table made from coffee grounds to an environmentally friendly guitar. It's on until 25 June. More information at:
http://www.nms.ac.uk/scotland/whatson/exhibitiondetail.asp?event=39

Bass Rock from North Berwick

The rock itself almost hidden
by pointillistic gannets nesting,
soaring round in clouds,

closer to shore, diving,
crashing into waves
stark white against sea and sky

their numbers restoring faith
in something that seems lost
amongst the people

littering the beach.

Bank Holiday at North Berwick

Today we went to North Berwick and walked along the beach. We had excellent views of the Bass Rock, covered in gannets. There were also a lot of gannets closer to the shore and a fair number of eider ducks too. Hopefully there will be a longer poem soon, but for now there's this:

Gannets

White cross-shaped bird
wings ink-tipped
stark against the shimmering foil
of sunlit sea.