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Where there is balance

A lovely spiny pine cone looms out of the darkness

Choose your own treasure

I love the gold of this leaf, you can keep your diamonds.

Now Is The Time

Now is the time to face the light.

Ritual Recovery

Creating patterns from chaos to enable the chaos inside to subside.

Too much sadness

A murder of crows in the bleakest of winters.

Standing here alone

A lone Acer leaf collected on a warm day in Autumn, it’s twisting leaves starting to crumble.

Bound together

Overlapping scales remind me of medieval armour. A pine/fir cone study. Black and white.

Broken thoughts

The leaf like scales of this pine cone (possibly a Sequoia cone, please write in if you can help with identification) fit together in a beautifully pleasing pattern.

Lost in space

We are all just lost in space. The base of a pine cone (specific species unknown, please write in if you can help identify). It was staring at the base of this cone that I realised the spiral growth pattern of the scales. On an unrelated note if you dry out a pine cone and […]

They won’t take us alive

Alien ship or naval mine? A close up view of the shell of a common conker, horse chestnut or Aesculus hippocastanum. Autumn brings a carpet of spiny green shells and shiny brown conkers to be squirrelled away by rodents and children (and some of us adults).

robert barker