Beetle sculpture

Posted on July 4, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cumbria, Forest, Grizedale sculpture Park, Lake district, Sculpture, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Trees, Trentham GardensLeave a comment

Carved into the base of a tree trunk. This giant beetle sculpture was on the lakeside walk around Trentham Lake last weekend. It’s good to see sculpture in the landscape. I remember visiting Grizedale Forest sculpture Park in the Lake District around thirty years ago. It had world renound sculptors who created art works all through the forest. There is also something called the Merz barn? in the Lake District, but I can’t remember the name of the artist maybe Jeff Koons? (German?). I hope someone knows what I’m talking about. Must visit again before it’s too late. X

My secret garden (mirrored)

Posted on July 4, 2021July 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back yard, Colours, Flowers, Gardening, Layout app, Plants, Rain, Summer, symmetrical, Weather, WetLeave a comment

By duplicating and flipping one side of the couple of photos I ended up with an interesting structure (in reality next doors small extension bathroom). The hanging baskets and pots pop with green and bright flowers. As they grow and bloom I will post more pictures (and include more if the rain stops!). Summer is here so they should take up more space. Gardening and rain, a typical British summer.

Showers

Posted on July 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Cartoon, Digital art, Digital doodle, Drawing, Photoshop, SketchingLeave a comment

For today’s #bandofsketchers prompt ‘showers’ I decided to draw a cartoon. I’ve not had much practice doing them, but I just went with the flow.. Lol.

Digital sketch just done for fun. X

Wet!

Posted on July 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Climate change, Environment, heavy shower, Life, Nature, Photo, Rain, Torrential rain, wetter than before2 Comments

Rain rain go away come again another day, or go to where its needed on the West Coast of the United States and Canada. I don’t think I’ll be walking far this afternoon. Watching the tour de France on the TV… And it’s raining heavily there too.

Thunderstorms are forecast here later in the day.

It’s amazing how much heavier rain seems these days, I remember rain in the past being relatively light compared with this! We live on a hill but the road looked like a river a few minutes ago (OK that’s overdoing it, a small stream). Off to get a towel to dry off!

Squeak!

Posted on July 4, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged 'present' vacuum cleaner, Cat, cat and mouse, escaped, Frightened, Hiding, Mouse, Paws3 Comments

Rescued a mouse from the cat tonight. All day the cats had been stalking something, paws under the vacuum cleaner. But when I moved it there was nothing visible. Then tonight.. Squeak! The cats were there and a frightened little mouse popped it’s head out for a second…. What to do. The vacuum cleaner was by the kitchen door. Couldn’t trap it with a cup or a box. So we both slowly rolled the cleaner into the kitchen, slowly across the floor, then slowly to the back door. The cats had been chased upstairs so we carried on until we got to the cat flap. Result! The mouse ran up and out. I hope the cats don’t bring any more ‘presents’ in!

Poppies

Posted on July 3, 2021 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, art page, emblem, Fine Art, Painting, Poppy, Red, VarietiesLeave a comment

I found some poppy seed heads yesterday, orange ones, maybe a type of Welsh poppy? I have always loved the varieties, from big oriental ones to small delicate flowers, and amazing blue himalayan ones that apparently like shade and dam ground.

This was a painting I did back in 2013, acrylic on canvas. I had it as my emblem for my art page for a few years.

Shall I delete some posts?

Posted on July 3, 2021July 5, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blank verse, Digital drawing, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, Thinking, ThoughtLeave a comment

I write about so many things.

Pour out words on the page.

My mind is full of thoughts

Too many to control

They fly out of my eyes,

My ears.

Where to stop?

Someone suggested deleting posts..

Should I remove them?

Cut back, reduce them?

Take the time to edit.

Or just leave them.

Enough or too much?

I will give it thought.

Thai taste

Posted on July 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dinner for two, Food, green curry, Night out, Restaurant, Sawadee Thai taste, Seafood, Stoke-on trent, Tasty, Thai, Thai cuisineLeave a comment

Delightful starters, tasty mains. We really enjoyed the evening meal at the local Thai restaurant. We had Thai fishcakes and spare ribs, then I had glass noodles and seafood with mushrooms and vegetables. Hubby had a hot beef green curry and sticky rice. It was a lovely evening, with a friendly waitress. The only thing that spoiled it was I had a couple of Gin and tonics and wasn’t driving so we had to dash home on foot because it started to rain and we’ve just had a bit of thunder and lightening.

In other news I think England may have beaten someone at football, but I’m not interested. There was an awful lot of shouting as we made our way home.

County show

Posted on July 3, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Black and white drawing, county show, Drawing, heavy horses, Horses, Life, SketchingLeave a comment

Sketch I did for Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt ‘show’ which I didn’t have time to post. This shows two heavy horses. They were part of a team of four pulling a brewery cart. One of the events that happen at county shows. I think I’ve captured their characters.

Waiting for rain

Posted on July 2, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Ears, Evening, Mouse, Photo, Sky, Steep hill, Sunset, Walking, Weather, WingsLeave a comment

Tonights sunset. We walked up our steep hill then took a slightly longer route home. At the bottom of the road back to home I saw this sunset and cloudy sky lightening the sky that had been dark and moody all evening.

I’m looking for faces in the clouds but all I can see a profile of a mouse with large ears, it has its front paws lifted up and large wings on its back. I used to think I had no imagination…

Mallaband-Brown

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