In this circle of land's bones

moments gather into wood

Truly beautiful words etched into this newly built 'art installation' treefold. Thanks to PaulaJ of this parish for pointing me in the direction of today's blip.

After yesterday's relentless rain today was exactly the sort of bracing start days that herald the change of the seasons should offer, the warmth of Summer still to be found in the sun - the chill of Winter foretold in the wind & the colours of Autumn emblazoned across the land.

As I wandered & wondered I thought about context and the human need to interact with our environment, to alter & add - to leave our mark . There's many a place that something like this, an apparent intrusion of mankind, would irritate me (lol - see yesterday's blip) - but here it is contextually right. Whilst in size it's a little disappointing  (a true treefold should perhaps be a little bigger such as that on Beacon Hill) this is landscape where detail and delicacy, their interaction with scale and scope, these are the things that matter, small things can be significant things here. 
Little Asby Common also has a tradition of these irregular walling wonderments -  only a real student of the cartographers art would ever spot the quirky sheepfolds of Lousy Brow or Howe's Well - and yet they seem unmissable when found out on the moor, they dominate their micro environment whilst being lost in the macro - something I tend to think that we humans could perhaps aspire to.

Treefold East will grow into its true purpose - soon a tree will be planted - not to replace the fallen Dowly Tree - but, in a pattern I'd suspect has echoed down generations, to become the Dowly Tree. The treefold will shelter & celebrate that tree, not really from the natural world but from mans influence locally, those little white horrors, and in time the treefold will allow nature to make its own mark - something that we in turn might wonder at.

Philosophy Friday
(sent to me by a friend, seemed oddly apt after returning to the world of news)
I don't care if you're foriegn, black, white, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor.
If you are nice to me, I'll be nice to you.
It can be as simple as that.