Ullswater

The end of a lovely day. A busy day but caught this when I nipped down to the lake as the sun was going down.

I heard this on Thought for the Day this morning, rather liked it and looked it up ....

The Bright Field - R.S. Thomas


I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
of great price, the one field that had
treasure in it. I realize now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying

on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.