Patrick McCormack

Monkey usually stands out in his stark black and white, but it's perfect camouflage for dappled shade. There's a place for every colourway of cat!

Cloudscape in the spirit of Samuel Palmer ☁️🌳☁️
#samuelpalmer #clouds #cloudscape

This is a video of a bear on a trampoline. Whatever argument you may or may not have tonight is invalid.

Indeed 😉

👈 Guess where my profile pic was taken!

Entrance to Stoney Littleton is aligned approx SE, so best to try at midwinter 😉

My first visit was in the late '70s when the passage was gated and locked. For 50p (or was it 20p?), you could get the key, a candle and some matches from Stoney Littleton Farm and have a solitary adventure under the hill. On emerging to be greeted by bright, high larksong.
Were there larks for you?

Thanks so much, Tom @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social, for the copies of Ring the Hill! I will distribute them to worthy and appropriate recipients 😁

It was one of those moments of being wholly in nature, so transfixed by the sublime (in a Romantic sense - W'worth & Coleridge were surely smiling on us that evening) that one loses the sense of self.
Such experiences are priceless; sought after, solicited, entreated, but only rarely granted.
2/2

Me too. Most memorably late one summer's evening with seemingly only the two of us on the fells. From the top of Harrison Stickle, we could see to the south & west cloud falling like a waterfall, near-luminous and wholly silent, over Bow Fell, etc. down into shadowy Great Langdale. 1/2

News from the Floating Rock 🌎

Moody or sunny, Cregennan is always splendid! Am looking forward to being there later in August ☺️

Moody or sunny, Cregennan is always splendid! Am looking forward to being there later in August ☺️

You can only pick one.
Which one?

When fully stretched, he reaches from my shoulder (front paw) to my knee (tail tip) 😁

Sometimes the historical dictionary offers solace through the existence of an obsolete word that is sorely needed now. One of them is ‘respair’, recorded just once, in the 15th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Monkey seconds Milo's example ☺️

Here's my Gate into the Sky, a poor complement to the thread by Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

I'm now into the return trip - another 5.5 hrs back home again! All in a good cause - time spent with family at a critical moment. But that sea and beach are a refreshing reminder of moments of living.

Oh, that looks sooo inviting! Far better than my mad 5.5 hr train trek across England today.

Perhaps a suitably inscribed lead curse tablet could be offered with coordinates of one's chosen victim? I wonder which coordinate system would be best to ensure the sky-father's accuracy 🤔

'Gods and Thunderbolts' looks promising⚡️A few of those in the right place might help remove some of the world's problems!

Illustration for 'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad' by M R James's good friend James McBryde. Sadly McBryde died shortly after creating this and other images for a collection of James's stories.
Whistle image from: www.deviantart.com/paul-rosenka...

And never, ever, on any account, pick up small, latin-inscribed whistles 😱

Complete the set with a "Lego" Hildegard! (Thanks to the wonders of AI 😉)

😄 great minds, etc! It's a smashing view indeed.
Swimming on or by Cader is a must-do each year. To swim out into Llyn Cau, and feel buoyed above the darkness beneath, the high crags ringing the water, and the open sky above everything, is one of the highlights of my annual Meirionydd pilgrimage.

Ah! The Minfordd path is one of the best approaches to Cader Idris, and as good coming down, too. For me, there's a sweet sadness when leaving. But the mountain is always reassuringly present, no matter how far away, its gravity tugging me ..
#cymru #Wales #Meirionydd #caderidris #hiraeth #sehnsucht

Eryri (Snowdonia) from Aran Fawddwy tonight

Break!
#cymru #machloop #sky #cloud #landscape #lake #photography #photographersofbluesky

Yes. I thought 'A View From a Hill', too ☠️