The sun is just up over the Al Hajar mountains on the Dubai-Oman border. And the air is crisp and cool. The ineffable mystery of empty sandscape.
Lens-Artists: Leading Lines This week Tina sets the theme.
Tish Farrell
Writer on the Edge
Tish Farrell 
These are beautiful images, Tish. Are you there now?
I wish!
I asked because the date on the photo is 2020.
So I take it you are paddling up the garden in your wellies then?
😉
Spot on, Ark. Still paddling about in Silurian gunk, though frost today and SUN! And SNOWDROPS!
Well, it’ll warm up a little in a month or so.
The snowdrops must have put a smile on your face.
They did. And actually it’s not that cold, surprisingly. Just wondering about sliding up to the allotment. Been trying to get the raspberries canes in order. They’re fighting back.
Love your words, Tish ‘the ineffable mystery of empty landscapes’…indeed
Thank you, Sue 🙂
Oooops, Sandscape
beautiful designs
Two super images.
Cheers, Brian. Btw – happy 2020!
The beauty of nature’s own drawing of “lines in the sand” – what could be better! Wonderful examples Tish
Beautiful scapes, Tish
Cheers, Mak. Hope you are well.
I am well my friend. Hope you too are.
Is there a book coming out this year?
A book this year? That is the question! Am pottering with a short story, but then keep going to the shamba. But am well otherwise.
You can write to us of the shamba, you know. I know you can weave a story from all the shamba you are doing
Shamba tales – I shall ponder on it 🙂
Remarkable images, Tish! The sands cape is stunning, beautiful leading lines.
Thank you, Amy. The way the desert scupts itself is very beguiling.
Wonderful images Tish. Especially the first two with those fabulous lines.
They are good lines, aren’t they 🙂
Fabulous!
So beautiful! It feels wild and free.
Alison
It is a special place, but not wholly wild. Here and there among the dunes there were camel racing rearing farms. A very popular pursuit in Dubai at the time.
So beautiful, Tish, deserts are something special – the wind blows them into enigmatic sand scapes.
Yes. Always changing shape too.
Stunning images Tish. They make me think of the opening scene of the film of The English Patient. Probably the closest I’ll get to the desert, unless climate change brings it to me.
That’s a good film to conjure up, Su. Which reminds me – if you haven’t seen it, somewhere on YouTube there’s a series about what famous actors’ grandfathers did in the war. The Kristin Scott Thomas episode is a stunner.
Thanks Tish. I’ll look for it.
I watched TEP recently, but really should read the book again.
It is a good book. Not sure I could bear to read it again. Though seem to remember there was quite a lot of about maps.
I think you’re right. It’s such a long time since I read it.
Stunning photos, Tish. The sapphire blue of the shadow looks like the sea.
Thanks, Tracy. I think the age of the photos might have added some particular colour effects 🙂
A lot of sand blowing in 2020.
All sorts of weather chaos going on just now, Pete, but I’d not read about the sand. Only the snow in Saudi! The year we went to Dubai (around ’97-’98) it was much cooler than usual, and we arrived to rain (also unusual). El Nino effect that year probably.
Oooh. Excellent!
Cheers, John.
Hei Tish Farrel,
One day I was travelling from Sharjah to Ras Al Khaimah. It is a straight road called Maliha Road, the most beautiful think i have seen in the sand color in the deserts. The far we move towards RAK the color changes to RED. I have never thought that the desert has a beauty.
It was a beautiful experience in my life.
If anyone would like to work in dubai especially in the medical field, they should pass the DHA Exam to get a medical licence.
Regards
James