It Wants To Live

On a mission to get a Panama hat for MrQ. My usual exit on the A10 is closed so I returned via Broxbourne and decided to have a walk at Clayton Hill in Nazeing. It's quite steep for Essex, I found a dead black-tailed skimmer dragonfly half way up. Great views of the Lea Valley from the top. I've photographed this tree before, I love it, it's still hanging on to life. 

Today's poem is Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man by Ogden Nash. http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.co.uk/2000/04/portrait-of-artist-as-prematurely-old.html

"No, you never get any fun 
Out of the things you haven't done,"