“Life feels like it takes deeper breaths and moves more languidly there.”
– A wonderful observation by a reader on the “Cracking Cones” video I shared yesterday.
countryside
I extol just such a scene as this in the recently completed “Over the Mountain” poem. I took this impromptu photograph on Friday whilst out among the hills—to me, heaven.
On this winter’s morning in the Overberg countryside of South Africa, the low peaks of the Small River Mountain range are laden with sunlit clouds; and in the gentle valleys at their feet, mists enshroud the hills.
Forgotten Fields 