The glow of life I was leaning on a five-barred gate. The South Devon farmland was alive with its own sounds. The cries of sheep, cattle and crows rang through the last of the sunlight as evening closed.

From: Herald Express (Torquay UK) | Date: May 12, 2007 | Copyright information

I was leaning on a five-barred gate. The South Devon farmland was alive with its own sounds. The cries of sheep, cattle and crows rang through the last of the sunlight as evening closed.

I looked around. In the combes the hedgerow shrubs were shedding their blossom. Everything about that landscape was small and intimate, from the fields and derelict barn to the low hills. Blossom and young leaf were comforting aspects of the season. In nature nothing exists in isolation. Each or...

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