Wandering Discoveries
15-10-25 to 3-11-25
digital abstract art - the mythology of Greek rivers - Acheron - the river of pain - entrance to the underworld.
Apologies for the delay in creating this post.
The local older people’s mental health team is currently trying to identify the type of dementia, I have. To ensure that I’m receiving the appropriate care. treatment, for now and in the future. Unfortunately that involves lots of appointments, testing etc. Additional complications to this process is my underlying physical and mental health issues arising from the traumatic brain injury. That’s enough about me.
I have now been on Substack for just over twelve months, and it continues to be the cornerstone of my daily life alongside my daily wanderings, photography and digital art.
A mallard duck swimming on the River Gipping.
A grey squirrel having a drink.
This photograph arose, whilst I was sitting on the river bank trying to photograph a kingfisher that frequents this stretch of the Gipping. The kingfisher was chirping from somewhere behind the squirrel.
The 14th century church.
On Halloween I had wandered into the local town which is full of medieval properties. This scene caught my attention, with the moon illuminating the church.
An autumnal view looking towards the River Deben at Waldringfield. The rushes feathery flowers are beginning bloom.
Moonrise - digital abstract art explorations I’m playing with “traditional” styles of painting with digital media.
Neo-impressionism was a style of painting, I enjoyed whilst at senior school. I studied the work of Seurat and Signac. I used the concept of negative space for the moon rise. And this creates a break between sky & land, I also used a different palette of colours, for the sky and ground.
Pinkish wolfs milk or groenings slime? (I think!) - lovely small pinkish blobs.
Slimes are a completely different organism from the fungi and algae.
The Rough Horsetail
This is another fascinating plant in the horsetail family (Esquisetaceae) and is also called the living fossils and is a unique they reproduce by spores rather than seeds!
Virginity creeper has been beautiful.
Autumn foliage colours have been special this year in England, following the long dry spring, summer and early autumn.
Sloes
Wild fruit and berries have also been prolific. The sloes are large and swollen this year. And not as sour as I have previously eaten.
Salvia’s
Some autumn flowering plants that caught my attention, at the moment, because of the mild autumn, summer, autumn and winter plants are in flower.
From my library of photographs, sunrise over the River Medway estuary from March ‘25.
Thank you for your support, responses, restacks. It’s really appreciated.
@Ink and Light by Nat Hale thank you for restacking this post. Very much appreciated. 🙏
Water really is nature’s funhouse mirror isn’t it!
Have you ever tried to make sloe gin?
Keeping you in my thoughts on the medical front.