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  Some black & white mood inspired by Patti Smith's book of b&w photographs "Camera Solo" while I'm contemplating a return to my beloved Haworth after a long long absence. Stairs to the Brontë Parsonage cellar. The Brontë children ran up and down these stairs countless times as they loved to play and enact the stories they wrote in the cellar which they called "dungeon". I had a chance to see the cellar not normally open to the public in 2019 when there was a very interesting installation taking place as part of Patrick Brontë's incumbency bicentenary celebrations. The installation, entitled "How My Light Is Spent", commemorated Patrick's cataract surgery on his eye and subsequent convalescence period in Manchester, in 1846. Part of 2019 "How My Light Is Spent" installation in the cellar of Brontë Parsonage Museum which commemorated Patrick Brontë's cataract surgery on his eye and subsequent period of convalescence in ...

  A beach on the river Aire in Kirkstall Valley Nature Reserve, Leeds. It was a cold  and drizzly day and I had the beach to myself.  On the way back home I picked some crocuses in the local park and  created a quick, impromptu still life.              Etsy Shop 

  From the usual Sunday walk yesterday with my bestie; we are still keeping it local. What a glorious day it was! Sunshine, spring flowers, bird song and balmy air. Perfection!  Etsy Shop

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  "And like myself lone wholly lone It sees the day's long sunshine glow And like myself it makes its moan In unexhausted woe Give we the hills our equal prayer Earth's breezy hills and heaven's blue seas We ask for nothing further here But our own hearts and liberty" ~Emily Jane Brontë~ Etsy Shop

  "Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an hour or two; and then, A blood-red orange, sets again." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~ Winter Time  Gotts Park, Armley, West Leeds Etsy Shop

"Nature never did betray.... The heart that loved her, tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life to lead From joy to joy...... ~Edith Holden~   Etsy Shop