DAYLIGHT SAVING...

I feel like this picture. I don't mind the cold, but the lack of light in the flat months of January and February means it's hard for me to get inspired, or in turn to feel inspiring. I want to squirrel away the nuggets of creativity, as though if I share them too soon there won't be enough. They need to incubate before they hatch in the spring.

Now I'm annoyed that before comparing inspiration to a chicken foetus I compared myself to squirrels, those little bastards who stole all the bulbs I planted and ate all the camellia buds.

I hope to start posting more of my own photos to go with my posts again soon. Somewhere along the way this winter I stopped taking my camera out and have hardly taken any pictures. But now I've found the (hilariously illustrated 1970s) operating instructions to my new/old manual camera online and I'll start learning how to use it.

{photo by Rinko Kawauchi, from Aila}