Personal Wild Places

Posted on Wednesday Apr 28 12:39:00 UTC 2010

Being Part of the Wild Places

I live in a beautiful part of the British Isles. People treat it as a holiday destination and I live here and sometimes it feels like being on holiday for free.

Our holiday destination last year was Cumbria. We discovered an unusual place called Burnmoor Tarn. It felt about the most wildest area on the holiday, even more wild than Scarfell Pike which we had climbed. TheTarn was overlooked by a lodge, completely isolated with no road to transport food or supplies. Anything required needed to be humped there by foot. This place caught my imagination and became the wildest and most beautiful summing up of Cumbria. The Tarn was surrounded by Cumbrian mountains and it really brooded, especially on our return in the closing light.

Think about wild places and this will fit in with the competition in the future.

A Celtic Prayer

There is no plant in the ground

But is full of his virtue.

There is no form in the strand

But full of his blessing.

There is no creature in the river,

There is naught in the firmament

But proclaims his goodness.