Month: May 2021

• Botanical Gardens

  

  From the Lost Poetry Project This Sunday morning constitutional finds us traipsing across the stubby field, over the earthen wall of the dam where a couple of Egyptian geese meditate or drowse in a circle of brown water. We rise toward the morning light, climbing toward trees, seeing the rolling grassy joins and planes of […]

  Glen Fisher

  May 22, 2021

  Poetry, Writing Wordshop

  #poetry, #southafricanverse, #verse, #writing

• The Debating Society

  

  It was a tweet by Jonathan Jansen the other day that dragged the phrase to the surface of my mind, from where it had skulked like a prehistoric coelacanth in the deep-sea trenches of mordant recollection. That’s it, I thought. We are, in essence, a debating society. ‘We’ being South Africa. Jonathan is one of […]

  Glen Fisher

  May 16, 2021

  Writing Wordshop

  #Covid-19, #covidvaccinations, #SouthAfrica, #Vaccinations

• Fall

  

  We don’t call it Fall, here in South Africa. We do it the English way. We call it autumn. Be that as it may, fall has arrived, including this morning an unseasonal thunderstorm and rain. It’s not just the weather that is changing, folks, it’s the climate, as you know of course, unless you’ve had […]

  Glen Fisher

  May 8, 2021

  Travel

  #barnquilttrails, #barns, #climate, #climatechange, #glenfisherphotography, #landscape, #landscapephotography, #Ontario, #PrinceEdwardCounty, #sandbanks

• If time is a river

  

  If time is a river, it is a river with rapids and falls. We snipped another month off our wall calendar on Saturday, the first day of May, leaving just four months to go before we pack up and leave our house in Johannesburg and begin the long journey home, to Toronto. The calendar now […]

  Glen Fisher

  May 3, 2021

  Writing Wordshop

  #blackandwhitephotography, #Canada, #familyphotographs, #SouthAfrica, @glenfisher.photography