Nicole Page-Smith, photographs and writing
Clear skies with the birds
Crawling out of the fog as if descending from the clouds the Holy Spirit lingers while the mysterious couple ascend to the town. You feel bygone centuries may have produced less of a feeling of a storm before the fog clouded your thoughts. Were people here last century who thought about the birds flying or a century before? Thoughts ascend beyond the clouds to the stars and the moon and night falls. The planets do their thing and rotate around the sky while spinning around the Sun but are clouded in the night sky. The morning is once again fog bound but sunshine tries to seep through. Another day of clouds and fog go by and thoughts of sunshine exist on the horizon but, the clouds remain on the hills. Winter days and their light prevail in your mind along with contemplation.
The sun shines so brightly somedays the sun almost hurts your eyes and while the clouds hug the hills, they are white and fluffy like cotton wool. Wisps of the spooky clouds you find in forests gradually dissipate and birds tend to behave like lovebirds hugging one another on the trees for warmth. Tiny, field birds, silvereyes and fantails, fly close to you as though you live in the forest and are their friend. Walks in forests encourage birds to say "hello" but maybe you are disrupting their environment when they fly away. Brightly coloured birds are in the trees for one another and although they are often very small tend to not understand human beings or any other species of organism at all. Glorifying the day, birds twitter away to God in the sunshine. Your spirit is lifted like the birds with something as simple as a sunny day.
The sunshine soon turns to fog as the clouds roll in and the church steeple can only just be seen peering through the clouds. The birds seem strangely vacant from the town as though they have left for the forest early, to sleep in the trees. Fog descending is as though it is a mystical veil and clouds permeate your mind. Clouds are not always associated with good thoughts but although your spirits may dampen as the clouds appear heavy in the sky, the atmosphere is humid. Although, the air is hard to breathe clouds bring solace to your thoughts. Consoling, cloud like thoughts are puffy in their thought bubbles and seem to satisfy the nebulous. Star dust of space serves to brighten ideas of the night and illuminated clouds. The birds nestle in the trees ready for the morning sun and the clouds lift for a sunny day. We are blessed by the morning sun and glory be the day for sunshine while the clouds drift away. Clouds circulate the sky and then blow away for clear skies with the birds.
