Abstract Landscape Painter.  Rural Dweller.  Lover of Modernist Art and Design.

13 February

An icy start to a bright morning, but grey cloud soon dulls the light.  On a route that I have not taken for a couple of weeks, I am shocked to see that a favourite copse has been almost entirely removed.  Just three trees remain standing.

I am sad, not only because it was a a beautiful thing - it looked like an island set it a clay sea - but mainly because it was a habitat.  For the last two years I have regularly watched a group of five roe deer grazing at its edge, morning and evening.  No shelter for them now, nor for the other creatures for whom it provided a home.

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