MKW Designs – Various 2

For those who may need some colour and nature in their life, I’ve got you covered. Over 1200 designs all taken from my nature photography. Link to each item underneath each pic and link to full shop at bottom of post.

MKW-LS.83 – https://www.redbubble.com/i/throw-blanket/MKW-LS-83-by-Darling2425/28163800.16D0B

(c) K Wicks

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Every day… (poetry)

Every day

They change the game

Moving the goalposts

Never the same

It’s really hard

To comprehend

Where this is going

And if it will end

What they have changed

Is the playing field

Pushing the people

Until they yield

With veiled bribes

Laced with threat

It does now seem

That this has been set

In motion and can’t be

Thwarted or slowed

We look like we’re headed

Down the long old road

To disaster

Rhyme and Reason

(c) K Wicks

Volume 1 – Rhyme and Reason (published 2018) – available, volume 2 coming soon

Conehead Mantis – large

This was a real treat and I still don’t really know how my husband spotted it.

But there it was, aware of us too and seemingly wanting to start making a getaway.

But i managed to follow him around for a few minutes and see what a strange creature he really, even compared to the other mantises I had seen.

Goes down as one of the most alien creatures I have ever seen.

(c) K Wicks

Neolithic Adventures – Wayland’s Smithy

One the more well known long barrows in England, Wayland’s Smithy. This is a stunning location and quite a site to behold when you get to the enclosure. Although situated on the ancient Ridgeway, it’s quite a walk from our known paths and roads so feels like quite a remote location. Only a mile apparently from the Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire.

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This one has also been reconstructed and only the front is exposed and accessible.

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It’s very impressive when you see the size of the stones and walk around the site. Human remains have been found at this site during excavations, but from an earlier structure that this barrow was built on top of, without further bodies or burials being mentioned.

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It’s amazing what is just lying around above and below ground, literally just under your feet and you might not even know it…

(c) K Wicks

Summer spiders 2020

There haven’t been many of late since the cold weather moved in, but in the summer we had lots of different spiders. Here are a few I managed to capture, they don’t hang around!

Green Huntsman
Orb Weaver
Jumping Spider
Cucumber Spider?

(c) K Wicks