Old snag

Published on by Laura Bloomsbury

When it’s not been raining, days have been mostly overcast so I made the most of yesterday’s clear blue brightness to stroll locally with my Richoh GRiii. I cannot go far as being in a clay-based area, many of the footpaths need duckboards to traverse plus I have a mobility problem that is frustrating and somewhat painful. Still we must push our boundaries and plod on and seeing that it’s now February I wanted to survey the trees before they bud out leaves and change their appearance. I began with this old snag of a dying Ash. A lone boundary tree with hollowed out roots which resemble open-mouthed crocodiles; a sure sign of a sooner-than-later demise. It’s a choice lookout for corvid flocks surveying the sheep fields all around and also a favourite of mine, as even dendrophiles have their special ones.

Visiting a favourite Old Snag at the end of the lane

One for Monochrome Monday because even though the sky was blue, the light worked best in Black & White

14 thoughts on “Old snag”

  1. Oh the light here is fabulous Laura, I must go out and do some black and white photography whilst it is not raining!

    1. these days we have to grab our cameras at the slightest chance of bright light – I’ve not done so in ages but February “stirs dull roots in Spring rain” to requote Eliot’s ‘Wasteland’

  2. I’m taken by the centered sunlight on the top image; fence tilting in to that wonderful ash. Contrail (?) pointing to infinity.

    1. thank you John – the early afternoon light was just right from the right (south west) and yes a contrail (looking like a ribbon in the breeze)

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