Light and transformation...

I photographed these snow fields as we flew over northern Canada in the spring of 2008. Flying at 46000 feet we were gifted with an incredible panorama of ice capped mountains and glaciers stretching as far as the eye could see. 

It's an experience that filled me with inspiration, not only for creative work ,but also for the journey of life itself, for the vast scale and almost limitless horizons are a metaphor for the process of waiting and of being patient.

These few weeks remaining for us here in the UK are filled with minutiae, with seeming obstructions and obstacles and with waiting for those to be overcome...and so I often return in my imagination to those ice filled landscapes and imagine the patience of Job as the days tick by.

Nicholas

The light is coming, a change is taking shape...


In 2009, while travelling in the American West, we journeyed to spectacular Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. We arrived on a sunny day with 70 degree weather, the next morning we awakened to over a foot of snow and temperatures averaging 15 degrees....it was a fantastic rate of weather and temperature change, and we were, literally, amazed!


This was the view from our lodge the next morning.


This season of our life is not rapid, like this moment in Oregon was. It is incredibly slow-moving, or at least it feels slow-moving. Nothing is unfolding without some little detour, or delay, or hesitation. For a while this was really getting to us, but in reality, maybe things slow down so we have the opportunity to not be overwhelmed, to increase our trust in the things we cannot directly control, to be amazed at the unfolding as it occurs, in just the right time...


My one, slightly selfish hope, is that May will begin to be warmer and drier, so that our wisteria and smoke bush, oriental poppies, irises and climbing roses might open their glorious blossoms to the light and send us on our way with a flourish of gentle beauty. 


Judy