Cait O'Connor

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laughter broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was t...

  Just a pic of my rudbeckia and a sweet butterfly to remind me of late summer Now we are a week in to November Whenever I fin...

The New Novel Winslow Homer 1877 Storytelling She always was a different kind of child who thought and schemed and ...

A Spell for Saboteurs The Hunter’s Moon is never discreet; that night it was was lofty, sanguine, rather like my mood.   I...

Lou Reed RIP

THE JOURNEY Sometimes everything has to be enscribed across ... the heavens so you can find the one line already written ...

Dave King In Memoriam 19  - 2013 http://picsandpoems.blogspot.co.uk/     Dave King, who sadly died this month was a tr...

  Grief Once upon a   time she could fly, if only in her dreams but loss has rendered her both wingless and limbless so she...

I am a little late, I apologise.   Seamus Heaney, reading his poem ' Digging '   God rest his soul.

Dear Diary, Some mornings you hear things on the Radio 4 Today programme which cheer you.   Not often!    Today there were tw...

Washing Line Claddagh, Galway 1930's Branson DeCou     You may not be aware but I collect images of washing lines (they can...

Black Powder   The curlew’s lonely, plaintive call, drew me to    high Dartmoor by way of moorland paths and woods of w...

Thanks to  Mary of  the wonderful blog Mrs Miniver's Daughter  for alerting me to this article. I make no apologies for reproducing it...

Seamus Heaney 1939 - 2013 A Great Irish Poet and Patriot.   Like so many others I was very saddened to hear of the passing of Seamu...

  This is a transcript of Martin Luther’s speech. It is long but it is worth a read, when you can spare the time, on this historic day.  ...