In the long winters here our working days are short - because we need daylight to feed animals and walk dogs in, and so the dark winter mornings and evenings shrinks the available time between the morning and afternoon croft chores to hardly anything. And so I look at this blog and find it’s been over a month since I found the time to post anything. Blogs have their seasons too, of course, and it’s probably quite natural and right that from time to time they should rest a little.

To add to the time pressure we have a new blog now that must begin to be maintained, over at EarthLines (http://earthlinesmagazine.wordpress.com/). (Take a look – we’re always interested in guest bloggers on relevant issues.) And so we plan to keep this blog a little more personal, while the pieces of our lives (the natural world, the changing seasons, the landscape) that may be of interest to our wider EarthLines community will shift over there. Who knows whether the split will make sense; all we can do is try it and see.

In the meantime, I’m sharing a beautiful piece of artwork by the enormously talented Rima, over at The Hermitage blog. This, she says, is for all to use. Look at it carefully, and I think you’ll see it’s worth using.

Sharon

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