Magic morning and images of a journey

I was going to do this post on iPhone photos taken of fragments of my recent trip to Japan; but ten minutes of beauty on this mornings early morning walk meant that I felt I just wanted to share both.

So first the ten minutes of colour from an early morning sunrise as I walked along Treehaven Way.

©2013 Barry Smith - Winter morning sunrise 1

©2013 Barry Smith - Winter morning sunrise 2

And then a few random images of fragments of beauty from the recent trip to Tatebayashi.

©2013 Barry Smith - Rusted corrugated iron

©2013 Barry Smith - Printing press roller and registration marks

©2013 Barry Smith - Light through the printer's cloths

©2013 Barry Smith - Spring growth through a fly screen

©2013 Barry Smith - Smears of printer's ink on concrete floor

©2013 Barry Smith - Rust - nail, wire, corrugated wall

©2013 Barry Smith - Gold amidst the new growth

©2013 Barry Smith - Dried and withered but holding beauty

©2013 Barry Smith - Fragment of a garden bed

©2013 Barry Smith - New growth on a temple's Ginko tree.

©2013 Barry Smith - Eroded but still doing its job as part of an ancient temple

©2013 Barry Smith - Ready for harvest

Over the last couple of days I have spent some in the garage-studio in the afternoons. I have cut and hammered heaps of metal; but because we are in another rather wet and cold period I have not been able to get to trim and polish pieces. I hope I can do a fair bit of that over Thursday and Friday and be in a position to share images of the fruits on my creativity on Friday.