Went for a walk

Posted on December 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Broken branches, Cold, Downhill, Fun, Sunny, Tired, Uphill, Walking, WindyLeave a comment

We didn’t get to the lake so we walked locally, up and down the big hill round here, Penkhull. The village was mentioned in the doomsday book. I walked in a mask and socially distanced, my glasses steamed up and with the very low sun it was more like walking in a dark fog than a sunlit day. I kept covering my eyes with my hands to shield them. As we walked we were stepping over lots of broken twigs and branches. One large limb had fallen down on the local school grounds, but as some of its branches has been cut back, this might have happened a whole ago? Today I managed to walk 5.8 kilometers (8250 steps) I also managed to raise my heart rate. I’m glad we won’t but I was shattered when we got back!

Morning sun

Posted on December 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Cold, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Star, Sun, Sunlight, Sunshine, View, WarmLeave a comment

Light pouring through

Liquid sun

Shadows thrown

Lens flare

So bright it hurts

Green and grey

Inside warmth

Outside, cold and bright.

Southern star

Shine bright.

Sunlight

Sunshine

Moonlight

Posted on November 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Creative writing, Full moon, Glow, Moon, Poem without verse, Poetry, Thinking, What do you see?, WritingLeave a comment

An oily sheen of light flowing out from an almost full moon. Twisted and turned leaves in the orange street lights. Like fire burning up, burning the leaves. Spiralling flickers like sparks from a bonfire. Ice and fire, light and burning embers. Do you reach down and touch the world? Sputtering and guttering your cold glow submerges the heat. Ice spikes fall and pierce the ground. Describe to me what you see. Says the moon….

Six years ago…

Posted on September 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Colour, Dorothy Clive garden, Garden, Life, Orange, Photo, Plants, Rhododendrons, Spring /summer2 Comments

Bright flowers, photo taken six years ago. I think it’s a rhododendron, glowing like an orange sun. Talk about flower power. I’m not going to try and duplicate or mirror this photo because it’s really stand alone.

This would have been taken at the Dorothy Clive Garden on the Shropshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire border. It has a quarry garden at the top of its slope which is full of beautiful rhododendrons in late spring and early summer. Do visit if you can. Visiting has been limited due to the virus but I do know they are open and you can find out more from their website.

Hanging baskets

Posted on August 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Colour, Environment, Flowers, Fun, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Nature, Plants, Summer, WeatherLeave a comment

Looking great now they have been well watered. The hot weather is really hard on them. If you look at them they wilt. But it’s worth the effort. Lots of colour and different plants. There are lobelia, petunias, begonias, pelargonium and other flowers in them.

It’s spectacular at this time of year.

Second idea

Posted on July 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bright, College, Drawing, Experiment, Fireworks, Fun, Illustration, Life, Picture, VariationsLeave a comment

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Fireworks. That’s what this is called. This is my second variation using four initial A6 images on an A3 page. I played with the background I did yesterday, with more black ink, more shading, but I added iridescent white to brighten plus thin strips of paper to try and make little explosions to brighten it.

Next step may be to swap a couple of images. I might cut into one or two of them. We will see….

My own flowers

Posted on June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Colours, Flowers, Gardening, Heat, Morning glory, Nasturtium, Poppies, Rain, Summer, susunshine, Torrential thunder storms, Water, Weather2 Comments

Last year, painting of morning glory flowers and some poppies. I haven’t grown much from seeds this year. We do have some lettuce plants, but they have probably been drowned by the amount of torrential rain we’ve been having over the past few days. Some places have had a months rain in a day! That compared with six weeks of sunshine in April and May. As usual our weather is topsy-turvy. Basically because of where the United Kingdom is positioned. We get weather from every direction, the Atlantic, the Arctic, Siberia, even dust dragged up from the Sahara. We are a weather magnet!

I want to go and get some seeds and see if I can grow some nasturtiums for late summer bedding, and the butterfly caterpillars love them. They are a nice, spicy, bitter and peppery orange flavour when added to salads and cold soups.

Colour/color

Posted on December 21, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Bright, Color, Colour, Creative, Curves, Design, Digital art, Digital drawings, Free app, Fun, Layout, photo editor, Poem, Poetry, WordsLeave a comment

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Zing, pow, wow, words

Colour, fields, world

Splashing, crashing, dashing

Down new ways and old.

Bold, hidden, subtle, explosions.

Harsh or soft.

Voom va voo.

Give me 54321…..

Lift off!

Colour or color

don’t care how you spell it..

Just share it!

The English countryside in Autumn

Posted on November 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, Bright, Cold, Falling leaves, Food, Leaves, Life, Sunshine4 Comments

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We just came back from lunch at a pub called the Red Lion in Werrington, Staffordshire. Lovely food, and a view from the restaurant over the Staffordshire countryside. The leaves are still falling. There are some beautiful colours. It was clear and the sky was a cold blue. It was good to be snug and warm inside. Now I’ve got to get ready for a craft fair tomorrow. I need to finish a couple of paintings a d add some ribbon… Back to work…

Sunset

Posted on September 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beautiful, Black, Blue, Bright, Colours, Firey, Maroon, Orange, Purple, Red, Sky, Sunset, YellowLeave a comment

When the sun set tonight it as like the sky was on fire. A deep purple/blue shading down to maroon, red, orange and then yellow.

I’m not sure I have quite the right colours on my phone camera, they seem slightly more intense, but that’s to do with how the eye accommodates in low light levels.

Whatever the colours the reality was spectacular. Beautiful. Colourful. Awesome. I would have liked to see the horizon but I was going into choir practice and didn’t have the time to drive over the other side of the hill.

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