Looking Up

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On Thursdays I work for my son. When we have finished he gives me a lift to the car park where I leave my van. Whilst waiting for him to manoeuvre the car so I could get in I was lost in my own thoughts and just staring into space. Then I looked upwards. What I saw amazed me, and I had to question why I had not noticed this before. This is Wales and there are lots of hills. The land surrounding us was a lot higher than where we were standing and against the skyline was a number of properties and their gardens. One in particular was surrounded by a very large tiered garden, carefully tended with immaculate lawns and colourful borders. For 4 months I have been doing that and never noticed it. It made me question myself, how much have I missed out on seeing because, I guess that like most people, I walk along just looking at eye level or at the ground so I don’t trip up! Only when I am ‘out for a walk’ do I look all around me. So now, even in town, I look up. The buildings, the architecture, the planters on peoples walls and window ledges, the birds on roofs, the buddlia that somehow rooted itself in the cracks of an old stone building. All were new to me!
So if you don’t do it already, look up when you are out and about. You may be surprised by what you see!

• 20 Jul, 2008
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