Valley Creations reflects the varied interests Steve Scott and Ruth Love. We have have spent our lives trying to make things better for all by making small changes to the way that we all do things and thinking about interests outside ourselves. We both volunteer in in the community and try to minimise our negative impacts on the world. The garden and all the other things on this website represent this.
Like all animals we humans are selfish but we are also able to hugely multiply our impacts. We can and should discuss what we do to make decisions that minimise our bullying and negative effects on other people and all the things we share existence with.
Here is some information from the UK Met Office showing some of those impacts.
For details of Butterfly Sculptures see Butterflies and Other Metal Sculptures
Latest Garden Post:
- Wonderful Water
Tumbling Water Most mornings I sit in bed with a cup of tea and look at clouds and the trees in our garden. There seem to have been some beautifully different skies in recent times.
This morning I was watching the shape of the clouds move with the wind stream. My child’s brain somehow expected the whole pattern to move in unison but it doesn’t do that does it? What we see as a pattern with some shading, hinting at 3D, is of course multiple clumps of clouds and different heights and distances. They move independently on the air streams where each one is.
Not only that, but the sun and air movements change temperatures and clouds can change consistency and even state. A thin whispy cloud might suddenly become transparent and disappear or the opposite. I realised I have spent my life staring at water in all its forms and trying to catch some of its subtleties.
San Gimignano Clouds forming That reminded me of Elif Shafak’s ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’, which uses water in various ways in the imagery of the story. One theme is the amazing strong electrochemical bond in H2O. She plays with the idea of how long water has ‘lived’ and what it might have ‘witnessed’.
Suddenly I was intrigued by how strong that bond is. First the bond is at molecule level, so an individual drop of water has much weaker bonds and molecules can wander off at any time. That molecular bond is magically strong though and people don’t fully understand it. There are many competing theories and we really want to be able to break the bond efficiently, in terms of energy and cost, so we can unlock the hydrogen. There is a lot of water about.
Water in various forms It pleased me enormously to find that the lower half of my window view does exactly that all the time. The plants there use photosynthesis and the power of the sun to achieve the job. I love finding out just how far behind the world we are in terms of inventiveness. We haven’t made a great job of our power and nosiness so far.