An intimate embrace

I’ve visited Orley Common a handful of times. I’m fascinated by it because nobody owns it; it’s a true common.

At the far end of the Common are fields of sheep and cattle with a single magnificent Oak at its edge. As we climb the gate to admire it a Common Buzzard sets sail and drifts away. The shade the tree casts is enormous in the morning and evening and intense at midday.

Orley Common - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Next to the Oak is a Hawthorn tree.

Orley Common - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

It’s clinging on in an intimate embrace.

Orley Common - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

It’s extraordinary that it is surviving and thriving, clinging on like that to a partner much greater in stature.

Orley Common - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Personally, I think they should get a room.

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