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THANKS FOR READING EMILY DICKINSON TO ME OVER THE INTERCOM AT PRICE CHOPPER (#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts 157)

THANKS FOR READING EMILY DICKINSON TO ME OVER THE INTERCOM AT PRICE CHOPPER    PodBean Listening Link This morning the air is held still by a thin fog. It is nose tingly cold. Breathing deeply brings the scents of mint and earth and a faint tinge of banana skin. And just in case I haven’t got the message from my nose, my lungs tell me it’s a wrap up warm day.   Alt text says this week’s photo is a pair of brown shoes on carpet. I say it is my walking shoes on the front door mat. I have been walking most days, but I seem to have been putting it off until later in the day since the clocks changed. This isn’t my best choice because one of the best parts about taking a good stroll is the fact it enlivens my brain and helps me shake my thoughts into shape. It is also good for my mental health to do it when the day is nearer its start than its end. So I am giving a grateful nod to my sturdy footwear and to knowing what parts of a daily routine are most effective a...
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NEW PHOTO (#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts 156)

NEW PHOTO    Listening Link        This morning my bed held me captive beyond sunrise. When I went out to see what Monday smelt like I found a bright sunny day with beautiful blue sky. The air carried the smell of warmed grass which made me smile.   Alt text says this week’s photo is a person sitting at a desk with a computer. Indeed it is. And it is me.   This week I needed a new author photo to accompany a poem that is going to be published in a magazine. As someone who feels rather awkward having my photograph taken, I was quite pleased that this one came out well. It might not even have come into existence if I had remembered that my email compresses photos before sending them. Sending compressed older photos meant they were too pixelated for use and I assumed they were just like that, so sprang into action to create something with the right kind of resolution. And hey presto that was also not right by email a...
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SHADES OF GREEN AND POETRY (#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts 155)

 SHADES OF GREEN AND POETRY  PodBean Listening Link   Last night the moon was full and it was Hunter’s Moon. This morning the air feels cold and fresh. It brings the essence of marzipan.   Alt text says this week’s photo is a person holding yarn, and when I change it to square it becomes a person with blue hair and glasses. It is both of these, and it is Kath with two different shades of green wool. The photo was taken to help Kath decide which of these shades she would prefer to knit a new cardigan in. I love colour, but I am not the most reliable in knowing which shade is best for such things so with the help of this photo Kath was able to make her purchase with confidence.   I haven’t been skipping much this week (just the once... across from the trolley bay to the car at Aldi), but my heart has been made happy by other things. On Thursday I practised my map reading skills to travel to Manchester for a poetry evening with ‘Carol Ann Duffy an...
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A PELICAN IS DANCING ON THE PATIO (#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts 154)

A PELICAN IS DANCING ON THE PATIO            PodBean Listening Link This morning it is dark when I go outside. First light is slowly approaching, and when I inhale it brings cold air into in my nostrils which carries the tints of greenery.   Alt text says this week’s photo is a lined paper with gold writing on it. It is, and it reads ‘A Pelican on the Patio’.   This week found me giving titles to the blog entries I hadn’t titled. There were quite a few near the beginning that had Singing As The Darkness Lifts as their headings followed simply by a number. I saw that it had taken me a couple of months to think about my titling from a reader’s point of view when I started blogging, and thus to figure out that it would be much more interesting for readers to read a title before clicking on an entry.   So this was the week that I realised I had not invented titles from the start, and I noticed because I wanted to ...
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A PEDESTRIAN WALK AND A ‘P’ (#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts 153)

  A PEDESTRIAN WALK AND A ‘P’     Listening Link This morning the air brings me the smell of trees. It could be fallen leaves or sycamore scent. There is drizzle in the air.   Alt text says this week’s photo is a piece of wood on the ground. I say it is a photo which makes a nice addition to my #ElasticBandPhotos collection, and that it was taken on a blustery afternoon this week.   The photo brought me joy at the end of a walk that had become rather pedestrian and consequently was one that I wasn’t really enjoying. I had been feeling ‘under the weather’ and went for the walk because I thought I should . I think I spent almost the entire 45 minutes thinking about the hot chocolate I was going to have when I got home. No particular attention to the cows or sheep or weather or indeed the music on my playlist. Of course I know that shoulds aren’t really the way to go, but still I put my boots on and went. Thank goodness for the moment of amusement at...
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CATERPILLAR OR SHOELACE (#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts 152)

CATERPILLAR OR SHOELACE      This morning the air brings a rather disconcerting scent of fish, a pale blue and pink sunrise shades the sky and a bird I cannot name sounds in the distance.   Alt text says this week’s photo is a close up of a caterpillar. I say it is two photos side by side, one showing a close up of a caterpillar, and one showing a close up of a section of discarded shoelace which resembles a caterpillar. No elephant hawk moth caterpillars have been observed this year in my garden, and I am rather hoping they have been quietly going about their business in the fuchsia bush without me noticing them. I don’t want to think that there haven’t been any. My camera reel shows me that late September is about the latest that I have seen them so I guess for this year I shall resign myself to the fact there will be no new sightings. The shoelace photo still makes me chuckle, and I think in the year I took it I began expecting to see the caterpillars...
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A SWISH, A GALLOP AND TWO LOOSE SCREWS (#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts 151)

A SWISH, A GALLOP AND TWO LOOSE SCREWS     PodBean Listening Link  This morning I cannot detect a specific scent in the air, and alt text is not offering me any suggestions for the photograph associated with this blog! This seems to reflect the fact I was late getting up after a weekend away at a yarn show, and my gears are not yet fully oiled and cranking.   To describe this week’s photo I would say it is Kath in her pompom crown ready for day one at Yarndale. She is in a selfie with me, and I am ready to look after the stand so she can go and teach during the weekend. Also in the picture we have a beautiful alpaca who definitely seemed to be posing for a photo early one morning when I went to ask how its day had started.   I love the fact that a yarn show for me is a wonderful blend of work and curiosity and playfulness. When we were getting everything ready to take with us for the weekend I even referred to the patterns as “...
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