Pear time

Posted on September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged annual crop, Crop, Food, Garden, Gardening, Life, Pears, Plant, sapling, Tasty, Tree, WoolworthsLeave a comment

Pears off our tree and oranges from the supermarket. This shows just how big our pears have grown this year. They needed picking as they won’t ripen on the tree. The tree was a small sapling from a woolworths store in Stoke twenty years ago or so, before the stores went bust. It’s now a tree about fifteen foot high and spreading branches about twenty or twenty five foot across. It grew leaning over because of the weight of the pears. I have to say they are very tasty when they are ripe. I think they are a conference style of pear. We have had around fifty or sixty pears but most of them are too high to reach, the ones in the bowl were low hanging.

Texting

Posted on September 28, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged explanation, expression, Life, Mobile phone, nuance, Text, Thinking, WritingLeave a comment

Texting, I hate it, trying to think of the right words, how to put feelings into what you say, without appearing abrupt or rude. Today I had a text and each answering phrase I wrote was edited four or five times. You can’t put nuance into texts. If I were a poet I could add different ideas and concepts to help make things more clear. But texting is generally short and simple. But also not always considered. At one stage I hit the thumbs up symbol accidentally that was not appropriate. I wish I could have deleted it. All I could say was sorry.

Window filtered

Posted on September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, contorted, Filter, Mystery, Photo, Photodirector, Playing, Style, WindowLeave a comment

Using a simple filter can change images. I didn’t use the full strength of filter on this because the contorted lines it created was overwhelming. Instead I turned the filter down to about 40%, it gives the photo a bit more mystery I think…. Photodirector style number two filter.

Poppies in devon

Posted on September 27, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cliff, Colour, cove, Devon, grasses, Idea, Life, Plants, Poppies, Red, Sea, South west, SummerLeave a comment

Memory of a trip to the Southwest of England. We stopped off at a lovely sea cove, and on the cliffs above it there were bright red poppies. These were so cheering, waving in the breeze along with rough stalks of grass. I need to paint a picture of a poppy field, this might be an inspiration to work from.

Delivery?

Posted on September 27, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged company, Computer, Delivery, Email, fraud, ignore, not interested, Package, scammersLeave a comment

Do you ever get those emails that say your package is on its way? Or cards through your door saying you need to pay tax or excess postage to get your delivery? There are a lot of scams out there. The post card gets you to ring a premium telephone line, or the email tells you to click on a link, then they empty your bank account by persuading you to upload some app that allows the scammers to see all your bank details or gets you to move money into their accounts. It pays to be cautious…

I got an email today, my delivery is due. The thing is, I rarely get anything on line, I haven’t for months. I’m not expecting anything, and I’m certainly not opening an email from the supposed company. If someone delivers something I will be really surprised! Plus I don’t do online purchases anymore. So the email has been deleted.

Night

Posted on September 27, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, crepuscular, Drawing, Felt pens, Moon, Night, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was night. I decided to draw a moon in the sky at night, but because I don’t have any black felt pens that work (dried up), it became a crepuscular moon, emerging from the darkening gloom of early night.

Yard time

Posted on September 27, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Flowers, Frost, Gardening, oranges greens, Plants, Reds, washing line, YardLeave a comment

Still a sea of flowers. The weather forecast says temperatures of 5°C tonight but I hope that the enclosed yard will protect the plants. I will see in the morning…..

The red flowers seem to be the main things that are still flowering. The yellow line at the top is our washing line, but it’s hard to dry clothes on it in the summer.

Surviving

Posted on September 27, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chilled, Cold, fading, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Life, Photo, Plants, Poem, Poetry, SadnessLeave a comment

The baskets are fading

Flowers crumple

Heads droop

Cold chills damage

Frosts pinch

Petals weep.

My beautiful baskets

The soft stems bend

Leaves are yellowed

Colour muted.

My sad eyes watch

Summers splendor fade

My floral glories

Gone soon I fear.

Some are stronger

Woodier stems

Allow life to continue

A little longer.

Missing choir

Posted on September 26, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Choir, Choir practice, emotional, Life, Loss, Music, Reflection, Sadness, Sympathy4 Comments

I’m not going to choir practice yet. I just don’t feel up to it. Singing is such an emotional thing. I just know if I go I will want to cry. I can’t face that yet. When I go back I want to be calm and a lot less stressed. Everything is so painful in my mind and in my body. I maybe should not share these feelings, but sometimes it’s better to say something. I don’t have the energy to worry about anyone else at the moment, and that makes me feel guilty.

To anyone else going through loss, I’d like to send my deepest sympathies, I can’t feel the same way as they do, but I do care.

Joint challenge.

Posted on September 26, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Challenging, Collage, colour match, Fine Art, Orme Art group, Painting, pattern match, Still lifeLeave a comment

During lock down last year, members of the Orme Art Group collaborated in recreating this Cezanne still life. We took a square each and copied what we saw in whatever medium we liked. Some of the images were smaller or larger than others so when the picture was put together not everything lined up. Also the colours vary because each artist was working to their own image colour settings. I think the resulting collage is rather good. We did several separate challenges like this over covid.

Mallaband-Brown

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