Will the light show me what is broken?

[sovay]

I did not get any pictures of the sunset per se, even though it was one of the low-fired kind that always look like scratchboard at this leafless time of year.



I keep returning to the sunset view from our kitchen, but it reminds me of the Hopper light I used to see all the time around Winter Hill as well as the colors of a lobster buoy.



There were grape leaves tangled up in the twigs swaying in the line of the telephone wires. The curious mauve smoke-color of the sky was not something I expected the camera to catch.



I understand this mirror exists in order to prevent collisions in the driveway of the business it belongs to, but it's such a good creator of abstract gleams.



The street full of maple leaves looked like the bank of a river by Greer Gilman.

I am just now catching up on the rest of Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane's The Moon Also Rises (2023), whose initial singles I heard around this time last year. It may be even more archaeological and ritual than its predecessor, which I have to say I am really enjoying. I wish I could get the edition of Jacquetta Hawkes' A Land (1951) with Macfarlane's introduction as anything other than an e-book.

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[skygiants]

I just heard of this book for the first time last week via a discussion of its influence on Susan Cooper.

[troisoiseaux]

I am just now catching up on the rest of Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane's The Moon Also Rises (2023)

I had no idea they did another album! I'll have to check it out; I loved their Lost in the Cedar Wood.

[ashlyme]

I love the smoke-mauve sky, the mirror, and the maple street.

It's criminal that you can't get that edition of A Land in the States. I'm lucky enough to own a pocket-sized hardback from '53 with the Moore illustrations; read it on a camping trip in Worcestershire, where the sandstone breaks through the soil. It felt like the right landscape for the book. I wish Hawkes had written a novel.

[thisbluespirit]

Lovely and interesting pics! I'm glad the colour of the sky came through. <3

I still haven't heard much more of Johnny Flynn, so I associate his music almost entirely with The Detectorists - he did the lovely theme song, but it sounds as if the archaeological theme was maybe a natural fit?