Paula ⚪️

@paulaflucas.bsky.social

Artist Celebrating the magical mundane✨ Art. Photographs. Walking. Noticing. Puddle botherer ⚪️ Cloud watcher Northern. Ally. Woke.

Hey, sorry for going awol recently & thanks for checking in 🧡 Seems the run of real life challenges continues & things have been really tough for some of my loved ones. I’m feeling overwhelmingly sad & powerless so might be a bit quieter on here than usual. Hope you’re all doing well Take care 🤍 x

A hot coals sky.
Looking up at low grey clouds catching the last of the sun which is casting the underside of them a hot fiery orange. Trees & shrubs in dark silhouette below.

Tip, tap. Soft as fog rising on the moor, mizzle glittered through sleeping hours. It's gauze at dawn softly pan-piped by the wood pigeon; other wings awed and still. Now the willow speaks in jingling green smiles as water spools delicately over the run-off once more. With love, rain. #DailyNature

I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.

I’ve a little park at the back of my house and some lads have been having a kickabout all afternoon. The volume suddenly got fairly raucous and I looked over to see one of the Dads had rolled up and is reliving the spirit of Brian Glover in Kes. Absolute scenes! 😆 #CompetitiveDad

The current spate of wildfires across the country and the tinder-dry state of Dartmoor has made me reflect on some of the incidents I attended. No exaggeration to say that some wildfires were amongst the most physically draining and dangerous jobs I turned out to in the 7 years I was on the run...

Black and white photo - two firefighters in full kit with beaters working a fire front in a fiercely burning gorse fire.A firefighter silhouetted in smoke on Dartmoor on a sunny day.A single firefigher looks to the camera with beater aloft with a massive wall of fire behind him.A tired firefighter trudging across the moor with beater across his shoulders. Remains of smoke hanging in the air.