Light in the Cloisters

Lovely sunny skies here today, so good time to go in the Cathedral cloisters while the low light shines into them.
The extra : this good woman was describing to someone how the decoration she is working on gets hoisted into the roof when she's done. The Cathedral was a hive of flower arranging activity for Xmas 

The Solstice Stone
'All were locked in me,
Silence and darkness,
I was a thing of winter,
Hollowed, I might lodge a skull,
I was barrenness,
I was the block rejected by masons, carver
shaper of querns'.

A star unlocked the stone,
the stone was a white rose,
it was a dove,
it was a harp with a hundred carols,
it was a cornstalk,,
it was a candle at sunset,
it was a fountain, cluster of arches,

On that stone lie the loaves and the cup.

George Mackay Brown