Look Up: trees

Do you begin and end your day with the world framed by a window or windscreen? Maybe it’s your own or perhaps it is the fingerprint smeared one of the bus or train. Do you run? Or cycle? Do you stare ahead, focussed on the point of horizon, enjoying the sensation of the landmarks flying past you? Or do you walk? Head dead ahead. Music sounding. Telephone chattering. Daydreaming.

Have you walked or driven the same route for as long as you can remember? Have you one day, for whatever reason, looked up and seen something that surprised you? A building above a shop perhaps? A blue plaque? A piece of graffiti impossibly high up? A flag. This blog is about what you can see when you tilt your chin and see a different view of your everyday world.

Look up.

Sunday, 8 April 2012

Money doesn't grow on trees...

...but in Pimlico it seems it might. I spotted this on the way back from the Tate Britain yesterday. These little hanging wooden tags remind me of the ones I saw in Shoreditch last year hanging from a piece of string.

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

And it was all yellow...

I love the summer; I adore the heat, eating outdoors, paddling in the sea and everything that goes with these things. But there's something beautiful about when autumn hits. It seems like the world momentarily bursts into colour- a final flash of life before winter turns everything grey and washed out. It's scenes like this one that makes me appreciate nature all the more, I am forever awed that colours as strong and vibrant as this exist outside of the Dulux colour chart!

Sunday, 11 September 2011

L + D 4eva

I always loved carving things into trees as a kid- I like the idea that as the tree grows your message gets higher and higher. I don't know who L and D are but I hope they last as long as their inscription does.

Look Up

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