Paths

If you don't know where you want to go, then 
it doesn't matter which path you take.
Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland"

Coastal path above Redcar Sands, North Yorkshire

Paths up hills and paths down dales. Paths through cornfields and paths through woods. Paths by rivers and paths by railway tracks. Summer paths and wintry paths. Well-trodden paths and forgotten paths. Paths to caves and paths to churches. Paths through cities and paths to the sea. Paths by prisons and paths by farms. Overgrown paths and paths made from old paving stones lowered by helicopters. Paths that miners walked and paths that weavers walked. Paths shown in maps and paths imprinted in our minds forever. Paths of memory and paths of hope.

Over at the Geograph site, I have deposited 2575 images for which the principal label is "path". A path takes us to somewhere else, somewhere different. And we are all on paths, striding to the future. The path of life, sometimes crisscrossing with other people's paths. Onward we will go until the path reaches its inevitable end.

Accompanying this blogpost are just seven of the path images I have captured in recent years.

Path by fields to South Anston

Path crossing Blacka Dike

In The Limb Valley

Over Bottoms Reservoir Dam, Tintwistle

Path from Top Riley, Stoney Middleton

River bank path to Whitgift Lighthouse


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Magic

 I never thought

I’d be envied

But I’ve gotten

So many compliments 

On the writing gift

It’s as if

I just pluck words

Out of thin air

And make magic

Happen when

The thoughts

Collide

The ratty tees

And sweats

Are my uniform

And it is

A blessing

To call the shots

A privilege

I never 

Imagined 

I’d possess



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