Deaths

Posted on February 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Art, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1838, Death, Life, Memory, Sadness16 Comments

How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life?

When someone close dies you realise how fragile life is. They can be there one day and gone the next. You then realise the same can be the situation for yourself.

I’m changing my perspective on life, I am not so blasé about it. It’s become precious to me and I want to hold on to it with both hands. I’m not exactly scared of dying, but life is far too interesting to give up on it yet. I’m a very stubborn person and I love a lot of people. They have helped me immensely in the last few months and I owe a lot to them.

I also want to try and enjoy art again. There must be something more I can do. There are lots of ideas in my mind that I would like to get out. I can’t control everything, and sometimes I am very anxious about things, I feel like I am a bit of a recluse now. Easier to hide. But I need to challenge myself and live.

Purse found!

Posted on February 4, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Found, Friend, Grateful, Happy, Life, Lost, purse, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

My friend went for a walk today and stopped off at the ice-cream van where I lost my purse last week. And guess what? It was there! I spoke to the van driver over the phone and he was happy to give it my friend (she was with me last week). Even better, the money is still in it! She’s going to drop it off later. For once I feel things might be on the turn with my luck!

Low sky

Posted on February 4, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged anemometer, Life, Photography, Pink, Sky, Sunset, Time, Weather, weather StationLeave a comment

Outside our back door this evening. The sky looked pinker than this to my eyes, but I have to go with what the camera shows. Out anemometer on the weather station was spinning round merrily in the gusty wind (it was almost a dark and stormy evening!) it’s not linked in with the station in the house as the batteries are dead! I do like the salmon pink sky. I wish we lived on the sunny side of the hill.

Beautiful girl

Posted on February 4, 2024 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Darkness, gratitude, grey skies, Life, Sadness, Thinking, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

The sweetest girl at just came to sit next to me. She’s now on the back of my chair keeping warm above the radiator.

I’m fed up of grey days and early sunsets, drizzling rain and sadness. I think about writing gratitudes again. I have health worries that I need investigating. I need to stop hiding in the house, but sometimes it’s easier to stay inside. BUT at least I have my sweet cats for company. They are companion animals. They help.

Teasles

Posted on February 4, 2024February 4, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Environment, Life, Nature, Plant, Staffordshire wildlife Trust, Teasel, Wildlife, Wildlifetrusts.orgLeave a comment

The brown, oval, spiky seed heads of the teasel are a familiar sight in all kinds of habitats, from grassland to waste ground. They are visited by goldfinches and other birds, so make good garden plants. (from wildlifetrusts.org)

These were photographed at Westport lake yesterday.

Mossy

Posted on February 3, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Environment, Fungus, Green, Group, Life, Moss, Nature, Photo, Stoke-on trent, Westport lake2 Comments

I joined a moss appreciation group recently. I’ve taken a few photos but I’ve not come across anything as spectacular as some of the members post. You can just see a reddish orange cup shape in the bottom right quarter of this photo. I think its a type of fungus?

Here’s a closer look. Can you identify it?

I like the idea of eccentric groups of people adding information and images to the Internet. That’s what makes it interesting.

Getting rid of clutter

Posted on February 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Clutter?, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1837, frustration, Life, Papers, Poem, Poetry, promise, Prompt, Time4 Comments

Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done.

I promise myself

To get rid of clutter

But it piles up

More comes through the door

And more and more

Not neat and tidy

Not filed in folders

But piled in boxes

On cupboards

On a chair

On the sofa

In bags.

Oh heavens

Will I ever declutter?

On the side of a barge

Posted on February 2, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bridge, Canal, canal barge, Etruria, Heron, Life, Painting, Swans, Trent and mersey canal, Waterlilies2 Comments

Seen on the side of a canal barge today at Etruria, Stoke on Trent. Not your usual castles and roses, but very nice image. I’ve actually seen a heron on that stretch of the Trent and Mersey canal. I like the waterlilies that have been included, they are not usually found in city canals though and the water is generally not that clean as there is usually some pollution. But I would say canals, are better maintained than in the past.

Abstract dragon

Posted on February 2, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, ArtRage app, Drawing, Figure, Landscape, Life, NorthumberlandiaLeave a comment

I see the yellow spiral as an eye, the greens emphasise the shape. This could be a garden from above. A dragons head?

There is a ground sculpture called Northumberlandia in the Northeast of England in the county of Northumberland. It’s laid out as a figure of a woman in a celtic form and built up in hills which you could do with this image, the orange and yellows could be paths. This is an Artrage app sketch.

My first computer experience

Posted on February 1, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged College, Computer, cursor, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1835, enter, key, Life, Memory, Mouse, Screen4 Comments

Write about your first computer.

My experience of computers was non existent when I was at college in the ’80’s. I went to an exhibition in a gallery and I remember being faced with a screen that said type ‘hello world!’ Or something similar and you would get a nice surprise.. So I typed:

Hello world

Nothing happened

I typed:

Hello world

Hello world…

Over and over, the instructions soon disappeared off the top of the screen. I was frustrated, I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know how to get back to the start. I didn’t know how to scroll back up the screen.

I gave up. Nowhere in the instructions did it say ‘press the enter key’!

It took me a few years before I bothered with a computer again.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life