New paintings and regular art updates.
Red flower
Red bag
Red brush
Red blood,
Red paint
Shades and tones
Scarlet poppy
Crimson lake
Sunset cerise
Carmine rose
Ruby jewel
Cherry lipstick…
So vibrant
Blushes and berries
Heat is rising,
Bring me Green…
Yesterday it rained for the first time in a month. It didn’t last long. My cat came in a bit damp, so I looked outside and there were droplets of water on leaves.
England and Wales are officially in drought conditions. A major Nature Reserve at Mimsmere was destroyed by fire. Whole parts of it that supported rare species of plants and animals are gone.
But big companies want drilling for oil, digging for coal, while European countries are ablaze and Canada boreal forest is threatened.
Listen to the world, not politicians, bankers and industrialists.
The copse on the hill.
High Trees
An ancient site.
Clouds scud – fly by
A Storm will blow,
And rouse the world.
Sleepy valleys,
Shaded by darkening clouds, ~
Let it rain, wind blow
Bring relief
From drought.
CMB© 2026
Today, after years I finally wrote down a lot of the bad things that have happened to me over the years. I’ve held it deep down and rarely shared it because, stiff upper lip, you just get on with it. People call me stoic, well I have been like this for over 60 years. I’m only saying now because I need to prove it to someone. Taken all day to write it all down. Do I feel better? Don’t know. I think I’ve still got some hope left.
I’m trying hard to keep my hanging baskets alive. They are on a shady fence which is good, but one in particular is in full sun and is getting rather crispy. Also I bought a few small extra plants but they outgrew their pots so a friend and her son came over to help today to repot them into containers. Some of them were a bit wonky so I tried to straighten them up. That was hard work. Even putting the bin out exhausts me.
Anyway the photo is of one of them. Bought just over a month ago from a small farm and really filled out. I’m using washing up water and some bottles of water to keep them going. Might rain next week… Cropped off the dried out bits.
I do this every year, but this year was a bit much, I will see what happens next year x
Winter, snow, rain
Memory of snow
Sitting here, I wish for a chill in the air. Yesterday was St Swithens day. They say if it rains during the day it will rain for another 40 days and nights… No chance of that…
The UK is suffering it’s 3rd heatwave in a couple of months and I’ve not been able to do anything. Temperatures have been over 35 degrees Celcius in some places. The world is definitely heating and water reservoirs are depleted.
Meanwhile we have politicians both here (conservatives and reform) and in the USA who want us to “drill baby drill”, seeing only short term gain and a lack of understanding of climate science. Now smoke from wildfires in Canada drifts on the wind southwards and the USA have been complaining!
Maybe hell will be on Earth after all, but the majority of the population do not deserve to suffer it.
Air fresheners make me sneeze. I keep seeing adverts for them so I looked it up online. Not good:
Air fresheners typically contain a complex, unregulated mixture of synthetic chemicals and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Common ingredients include formaldehyde, phthalates (which act as hormone disruptors), petroleum distillates, and benzene derivatives. These are often dissolved in solvents like isopropyl alcohol to disperse the scent.
There is more, but I didn’t want to use too much of this quotation from Google.
Just think of your health before you spend your money.
I feel like I’m waiting
Watching out
For something to happen
A buzzing, fizzing, aching
Feeling unable to settle
Like the house will fall down
Or a comet will hit
Fires will strike
Things will crash
So I sit
Nerves twisting my gut
Agony and anxiety
Catastrophising
Waiting for my jenga life
To fall..
Procrastinating
What fruit there is is ripening in this excessive heat but will possibly be spoilt by next Wednesday when I see it again, it’s at the craft group I go to, either that or it will have been eaten by hungry birds.
In other news my neighbour down the road owns a computer shop. A couple of years ago they bought the land to the side of my garden and now they are in the process of building a new office. So because my old hedge was growing over the boundary line they have cut it down and some of my Walnut tree branches too. I think they thought they were doing me a favour but I’m worried someone could get in the garden and break into my sheds (I have been burgled before), and Walnuts can weep until they die. With that and metallic fencing they are putting up it will feel more like a prison than a garden.
Third heatwave in a few weeks
I’m exhausted
Too hot
Found a small fan.
But I wait for the room
To get hot
Before I switch it on.
Then bliss as cool air
Sweeps over me
But don’t want to use
Too much electricity…
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