February wakes radiant.

white gold

frost

bronze

lemon light

smoke

umber

rain blue

lilac mist

rinsed black

moss

1st

Cold is like a force.

Bright, white grey.

An insistent presence.

2nd

Red branches of beech.

Elegant, drawn lines

traced in the luminous winter sky.

3rd

Gold and rose sky at dusk.

Radiant blue with flame clouds.

4th

Cold and simple and grey.

Winter wild clear air.

5th

Hedges cut. Upright.

Bronze and burnt umber stems

are fires edging the lanes — burning in the rain.

6th

Lemon light.

A forget-me-not blue sky.

Clusters of blackened ivy berries in dark hedges.

7th

Brief sunlight in the morning.

Fresh blue sky among bare hazel branches.

First celandines along the lane.

A full swathe of snowdrops

under silvery beech.

8th

Sharpened light,

edging with precision the trees —

curve of hills —

lines of hedges.

9th

Hills glowing in a gauzy mist.

Emerald shining.

Muted.

Charged.

Wings and wind sounding in the branches.

10th

Wild sweet

cold clear air.

Luminous grey.

11th

Simplicity.

Mist.

Grey light.

Still.

12th

Misted fields.

Charcoal hedges.

Lichen and purple stained thickets.

13th

Steady rain blown by the wind.

A new silvered brightness.

Shimmering, whispered light.

14th

Smoke scented air,

drifting glowing rising.

An amber evening,

Willows fire red,

grass, emerald bright.

15th

An unadorned day.

Grey green gentleness.

A misted calm woven with birdsong.

16th

Green drenched hills.

A pause in the rain.

The air full of the wind’s voice through shaken branches.

17th

Bright white light.

Smoke drifting.

Shadows grey and deep,

Mist a lemon brightness.

Hedges embered gold.

18th

Yellow light.

Finely drawn branch tips —

rinsed black.

19th

Wind in the hazels.

Clear radiant blue.

A squirrel — mouth full, and face obscured by grass and moss —

dashes along the high branches to its nest.

20th

A day of gloss and shimmer.

Pale misted blue hills.

Drifts of indigo woodsmoke and shadow over haze light in the fields.

Lemon lit branches.

Rooks call and coast in the quiet air.

21st

Yellow dust.

Spring green catkins,

shaken as the branches lift and fall.

22nd

Steady winter rain.

Layers of mist —

grey green, rain blue.

The lane a reflection of sky.

23rd

Clear shining sky.

White gold clouds.

Amber branches alight.

24th

A white luminous morning.

Mist rising over frosted fields and dark hedgerows.

25th

The faded grass of winter deepens to a new green.

Hills fold — one into another,

sketched over by broken dashes of cut hedge.

Grey blue woods.

Thickets of hazel are burnt umber and flame.

26th

Upswept clouds.

Charged with gold.

27th

Glimmering grey light,

rising over still trees and a green quiet land.

28th

Blue fields.

Sunlight in pools.

Beech trees ancient and carved,

emerald in the light and dark shadowed.

The woodland floor glossy with starbursts

of bluebell leaves.