Trees

Whenever I am seriously in need of distraction I head for water - usually the coast, a favourite loch or if I don't have time to travel, the River Clyde. Somehow I find just being by the water calming and therapeutic - perhaps it's all that ebbing and flowing who knows. But what I do know is that I always come away from an hour or two or three spent by the water feeling much calmer and refreshed.

This morning I decided that as much distraction was needed but the weather wasn't particularly great I would visit a strech of the River Clyde in the city centre. Now the more observant of you will notice that this looks nothing like a river! That's because while there my attention was caught by the trees behind the walkway and what a rather attractive treeline they formed. The cathedral (St Andrew's as opposed to St Mungo's) is also looking good now that the renovations are almost completed and the scaffolding is removed - just a pity about those green truck like things in front of it! All in all a much better blip than the dark murk waters of the Clyde on a dull dark day - even if it did rather successfully distract me for a few hours!

Things to be thankful for today: rivers, beautiful trees, cathedrals, Douglas Coupland, REM, Sufjan Stevens, Blondie and Aimee Mann on my ipod



'I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve'


L.M. Montgomery - Anne's House of Dreams