Garden for Sparrows

Mike Smith, Addingham based printmaker

Wild Flower Meadow - Upper Wharfedale',

Just spreading The Good Word here about a criminally underrated series...

(1) The paladins are both badass men and women that come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

(2) The love interests are a perfumer, a lay-priestess, a CORONER (ILU Piper), and a spy respectively - no "LI must be a badass warrior" energy.

(3) The romances are sweet and not full of bizarre abuse masked as love.

(4) For you 30+ folks: everyone has lower back and knee pain because they're all adults with plenty of lived experience behind them. The paladins have undergone horrors unimaginable; the LIs have had bad divorces, things gone wrong in their plans and lives, or are in possession of useful but horrible powers.

(5) Bishop Beartongue. No more needs to be said.

(6) The Church of the White Rat is just amazing. A church built entirely on helping others that... actually does it? Also, I LOVE the concept of a Solicitor Sacrosanct (aka, a holy lawyer).

(7) The worldbuilding is superb, and intentional and consistent.

(8) EARSTRIPE!

All day the stars watch from long ago my mother said I am going now when you are alone you will be all right whether or not you know you will know

Flowers courtesy of Vincent Van Gogh

Plums

Scolopax minor, American woodcock