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Nick Tarleton's avatar

Lovely - glad I am not the only one who likes to lie down in the woods trying to be mistaken for a log!!! :-)

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Emily Hearing's avatar

I love the image of the holly being loved to death by the ivy. Beautiful!

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Bethany Joy Dawson's avatar

Thanks, Emily. I've been seeing it everywhere now, that entangled way ivy has of growing old with other trees! I appreciate the comment.

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Ruth Joy Morrison's avatar

I love the lying down. It makes me think of Wendell Berry’s The Peace of Wild Things when he lies down ‘where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water and the great heron feeds’. Beautiful, Bethany.

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Bethany Joy Dawson's avatar

I was thinking about that poem as I lay there, so close to the herons' domain!

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Leah Boden's avatar

I LOVE this so much 🌱🍃💫

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Bethany Joy Dawson's avatar

Thank you, Leah xx

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Ciara Ohartghaile's avatar

Gorgeous, I can see you silent and still amongst the undergrowth 😍

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Bethany Joy Dawson's avatar

Not exactly the version of 'cool' I had imagined for my forties but I am quite delighted about that!

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