Anyone see a face?

Posted on October 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Clouds, Face, Flower, Fun, Life, Pareidolia, Pattern recognition, Photo, PinkLeave a comment

A fellow blogger mentioned Pareidolia today because he noticed he could see a face in a piece of lichen. Of course I then had to look back over my recent photos to see if I could find anything that looked like a face?

I’m one of those people that see faces in everything. I had to get rid of my shower curtain as I could see five or six bubble faces in it which was quite disturbing! I wondered if the designer had done it deliberately!

When I was a child I would often lie on the grass and looked up at cloud faces and animals, elephants chasing camels across the sky….

I might write a poem about that….

Rose

Posted on October 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Cold, Ending, Failing, Flower, Frost, Growing, Pink, Rose, Waiting to fall, WinterLeave a comment

One rose left

All others gone

Pink and delicate

Fighting the cold

Decay all around

Starting to curl

Fade away

Waiting to fall

To fade

Till always

Inevitable end

Morning glory flower

Posted on October 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Flower, Germination, Morning glory, Plant earlier, Plants, Sad, Time, Trumpet shaped flowers, WetLeave a comment

They are just about hanging on, and starting to develop flowers! The rains coming down most days and is starting to soak the soil too much. If we get a frost it’s going to destroy all the plant cells, and then, no more tender plants like these. The thing I’ve learned? Plant the seeds a month earlier, get them warm and germinating and get them out in the sun a month earlier too.

At last, a courgette!

Posted on September 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Back yard, Courgette, Feed, Flower, Food, Gardening, Life, Nature, Plant, Tiny tomatoes2 Comments

My vegetables didn’t do well this year. It sort of fizzled out in August and nothing grew much apart from the pears. But I spotted this growing last week. The weather is due to get cold in the next day or so but I hope if I give it a lot of water and some feed it might grow a bit more before the frost gets the plant. There are more flowers on it.. I also found a few baby tomatoes in a hanging basket. Green, but maybe they will survive for a while.

Morning glory

Posted on September 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Buds, Flower, Garden, Life, Morning glory, Photo, Plant, Purple, Tendrils, Yard2 Comments

Several plants and one flower later! The other morning glory plants have buds on them. But the weather is set to be cold and wet from tomorrow, so they might all wilt! Anyway here is a tiny flower, I’m please it’s come out!

Yellow flower

Posted on September 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Daisy, Dying, Flower, Gardening, Glowing, Grass, Photo, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Seed head, Yellow2 Comments

Yellow petals

Flag in grass

Filigree of leaves

A spidery web of filaments.

Daisy reflections

Crumpled and dying

Leaving the world

With less colour

Seed head to come

Holding yellow inside it

Hoping to grow

And glow

Year.

Open and Closed

Posted on August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Colours, Drawing, Fish bottle, Flower, Gardening, Gladiolus, Houseplants, Life, Plant, Snapped by wind2 Comments

Poor Galdiolus stalk got snapped off in the wind. So I rescued it and put it in an empty fish shaped bottle in some water. Today’s challenge was open and closed so I think the open and closed flowers fit with the prompt. I’ve added the fence and flowers in the background. Using pencil for the sky and trellis. A few hanging baskets and houseplants finish the drawing.

Colour combinations

Posted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Afternoon, Flower, Grey, Grey cloud, Grey sky, Lily, Photo, Pink, Pink and grey, Pink flower, Pink Glass, Stormy, SunshineLeave a comment

Pink lily, pink glass with grey shadow, lowering grey cloud. Just three things that I noticed today. Pink and Grey really do work well together. I’d say never be afraid to allow colours to clash. Enjoy what you do.

Keep away from cats!

Posted on July 27, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Damaged kidneys, Danger to cat, Don't grow?, Flower, Lily, Poisonous, Pollen, Take care4 Comments

Lilies, and particularly their pollen are very dangerous to cats. We have moved ours away from paths in the garden so the cat cannot brush past them. I think it effects their kidneys and can cause serious health issues, possibly including death. We don’t normally grow many as they are usually killed by lily beetles. This year we were lucky? They are still lovely flowers, but I might reconsider planting them next year.

Triffids?

Posted on July 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flower, Fun, Horror, Plants, Random, Sci fi, Short story, Triffids, Very short storyLeave a comment

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Don’t let it come close! It will swallow you whole. The woman screamed at me as I walked up the hill. I saw what she was pointing at in front of me. A giant swirl of leaves and tendrils.

What is it I asked her. But she was running in the other direction…

Then I noticed the thing was moving, it was edging towards me. I turned to run but there was another one. It had sneaked behind me when I wasn’t looking.

I jumped in fright, ducked and tripped. Falling and running at the same time, I twisted as the tendrils touched my coat, desperate not to let them touch my flesh.

A hand grabbed my shoulder and arm, it pulled me away from the plants.

You don’t want to let a Triffids get you. A man pushed me into his car. We drove away.

Now I’m in London, I still don’t know what’s going on. Hopefully I can find out?

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Flower