Earth, the great elemental mother that steams through the cosmos.
Earth, the element with the mothering instinct. It houses all the other elements, it symbolises stability and it is our home. Earth is the place that shelters us and preserves our being. It is our provider, the food in our mouths, the ground beneath our feet and yet we abuse it, this great elemental mother that steams through the cosmos.
It is perhaps the most important of all the elements, because it is the host, bringing all the others together, while fulfilling its role as a great hotelier. It is the grass we walk upon, the rocks we climb, the beach between our toes. The Earth channels the air that flows around it with its endless supply of energy deep within. It supports the water that flows over it and supplies the material that feeds fire, enabling it to grow. It takes care of us and bears its wounds just like we do. It doesn’t asks for anything in return, but maybe it should.
This is the element I began Bronte’s story with. I am fascinated by the unpretentious flow of energy within the Earth, the energy that surrounds us and effects our daily lives in subtle ways. Ways we take for granted, like the deep terrain sounds that fall just outside our hearing range, but have the power to affect our senses. Like the weather that travels around the planet in currents that echo those of the subterranean territory below. I asked myself this, “What would a person, who wasn’t bound to a body, do? What would they tap into that we simply can’t, because of our physiology? What if we were more sensitive to the vibrations around us, would we use these as our energy source? These ponderings were what led me to create Bronte’s other worldly character – Bayer.
Take a look at just some of the inspiration I have worked from to help me formulate my ideas for The Hidden Saga. The picture board below is one of my best tools for creating an atmosphere that I can creatively draw upon to write my story. Please tell me what you think of my board and the photographs I took, in the reply section below. Don’t forget that if you like what you see, to shout about it and tell a friend to follow my work. I thank you for taking the time out to visit my page today and for looking at my work. Thank you for your support.
- The Pier 5
- Nettles
- Windermere
- Mountain Lake
- The Path
- Follow That Path
- The View
- Writer’s Corner
- Where The River Escapes
- The Thinking Place
- River In The Trees
- Where The Story Comes Together
- Cloud Shadows
- The Waterfall 8
- The Waterfall 5
- The Darkened Treeline
- Dry Stone Wall 1
- The Waterfall 9
- The Beck
- Snowy Mountains – Windermere
- Rugged Moors
- Ingleborough
- St. Ives
- Mill inspiration
- Dry Stone Wall & Mountain
- The Grassy Bank
- Step Around The River
- Hidden Woodland Caves
- Tunnel History
- The Promised Land
- Windermere Capture
- My Favourite Writing Place
- Supressed
- The History Of Hearts
- Snow Dance
- A Love Lost
- The Weir Through The Trees
- Snowy Trees
- The Tree Swing
- Canal Barge
- The Barn
- The Farm House
- The Pier 1
- Mill inspiration
- River Shelter
- Through The Houses
- The Bottomless Pool 2
- Dry Stone Wall 4
- Mountain Backdrop
- The Waterfall 6
- The Bottomless Pool 4
- Canal Bridge 2
- Driving In The Arctic 1
- Poppies
- Cabin In The Woods
- The Waterfall 7
- St. Ives Moors In A Blizzard
- Writing With The Snow & The Sun
- Tree Foliage 3
- River Beach
- The River Bridge
- Spider Webs
- Through The Trees
- Dry Stone Wall 2
- The Weir
- The Pathway
- Through The Trees
- Tree Foliage 1
- Hidden Tranquility
- Trees & Cold
- The Snowy Carpet
- A Bridge To Ponder On
- A Snow Filled Valley
- Rugged Mountains
- A Leafy Oasis
- The Locks
- The Christmas Pine 2
- Make Hay
- Snow Through The Trees
- Daydreamer
- The Conversation
- Still Waters
- The Christmas Pine 1
- Fallen Trees
- My Favourite Writing Place 2
- Druids Lane
- The Mossy Weir
- A Hidden River
- The Waterfall 4
- Dry Stone Wall 5
- River Step
- Rugged Windermere Farm
- Tree Roots
- Canal Bridge 1
- My Favourite Writing Place
- Cave Creatures
- The Bottomless Pool 3
- The Field
- Field Treeline
- Boulders Pass
- The Waterfall 2
- Stepping Stones
- The Bottomless Pool 1
- The Pier 7
- Driving In The Arctic 8
- Dry Stone Wall 3
- Where The Fairies Live
- The Waterfall 3
- Ingleton Church
- Where The River Escapes 1
- The Pool Of Wisdom
- Through The Trees
- Windermere Farm
- After The Blizzard
- Swans
- Rugged Haworth
- I Can See You
- Dappled Waters
- Canal Barges
- The Woods
- A Happy Beverage
- The Lake District
- Stony Bridge
- Through The Trees
- The House In The Woods
- The Waterfall 1
- Tree Foliage
- The Lake
- Rise
- Tree Foliage 2
- Dappled Woodland Light
- The Mill