Hi Brian
What an interesting reply Brian. Do you make or collect anything yourself Brian.
Driftwood is a fascinating thing to see as artwork. Great to paint too.
Love to know more about Roger Deakins book :-O
Thanks Kathy.
As you may have guessed I tend to collect all sorts of natural bits and pieces.
I do have one or two pieces of wood. I have a couple of pieces of Laburnam in the shape of toadstools which I purchased on a visit to Iona. To be honest I prefer the look and feel of natural driftwood and these are varnished, but they do have great sentimental value to me. The little piece I wrote was about a bit of driftwood I picked up on Mull during the same trip. It may be a bit long to put on here. You may well have seen it on the other channel!
Roger Deakin's book, Wildwood, is basically a personal journey of his, starting from his early years and initially focussing upon someone wo inspired his interest in nature. In short the book is about trees, (I collect books too
) but all aspects of trees, and it looks at the importance of such, and how they have been used and how they effect us all. Roger visits a number of areas in both the UK and around the world. It's a good read and very poignant as Roger died soon after he finished the book. I am certainly looking forward to this new one of his. It was reviewed in the Sunday Times last week, but I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head.
I've just added a photo of a piece of Oak cork that I picked up in Extremadura, Spain Kathy. Not exactly driftwood but very interesting, and I know you won't mind me posting it in your thread. The cork bark is stripped off the trees every few years and then allowed to grow again. Like lots of things in this world today the areas where the trees grow have been under some threat. That's why I try to avoid wine bottles with those awful screw tops!o
Now a glass of red wine in Extremadura is a wonderful way to spend an evening after a days birding or for that matter even if you haven't been birding.:t:
