Walking clears my head. Especially here, on the eastern lip of the Atlantic, the fresh winds gusting in over Galway Bay clear the cobwebs of editing and writing from my mind. When I need a break from work – from books, paragraphs, sentences, words, letters – I walk.
Sometimes, though, the letters follow me. This one gave me a proper surprise, almost glowing in the wet autumn ground:
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Leaf no.1 photographed on 25 June 2008.
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Leaf no.2 photographed on 25 May 2010.
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It makes me wonder what they’re putting in the soil around here.
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