Stormy weather in March does have a few wee compensations… and the rainbows which sometimes appear during torrential showers of hail are especially bright. So when Algy saw the massive black clouds sweep in from the sea, with the sun still shining through from the south, he leaned back happily on the waving bed of Marram grass and gazed at the sky. Algy loves rainbows, so he was inevitably reminded of Wordsworth’s famous rainbow poem:
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety[ Algy is quoting the poem The Rainbow by the 19th century English poet William Wordsworth. ]
Blog recommendation of the week – reblog 3
You can see more of Algy’s work on the pws-pop up follow-up exhibition today
Algy remembers this rainbow – it was a beauty, in a dramatically stormy sky. And Algy’s assistant remembers it too, because she had to photograph it in a hailstorm in a howling, freezing wind, while Algy just reclined in the grass!
They both thank @photosworthseeing very much for reblogging this image from Algy’s many adventures 🙂
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