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“Time” by Pink Floyd is a good place to start for this entry – not only as I’ve been listening to it a lot, but because lyrically it seems to embody my current retrospective mindset quite well. The theme it deals with is one of life passing the individual by whilst “kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town”. Walking aimlessly around my town today, I could certainly empathise.
The photograph above was taken during an arbitrary ramble through the resplendent hues and light whimsical breezes of County Down on a late summer’s day. It followed what felt like a small epoch throughout which the extent of my undertakings were into local towns, or around my sunlit garden, during one of my many breaks from being an unappreciated creative genius.
Walking through the city of Belfast today with numerous errands to run, I found myself pausing for a moment or two, so that I could breathe in the first air of spring. It’s been a very long and cold winter, and milder weather is sincerely welcome. Botanic Gardens are particularly nice when new flora is beginning to bloom.
November has seen me completely absorbed in several enjoyable and quite contrasting activities – to the point where I’ve hardly slept at all. I’ve been combining the excellence of my new toy – Sony Vegas Professional Edition, with the probably mediocre High Definition footage I shot while on my round the world trip last month.
Typically there wasn’t any sunshine for my first outing in Belfast since my return home from the world trip three days ago. There was none the less some pleasant afternoon hot chocolate with my friend Julia, who’s been in Northern Ireland for a month conducting research for her dissertation, on, oddly enough, ‘The Troubles’.
