Bench and moss

Posted on June 18, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Broken, Garden, Green, Growth, Life, Metal, Moss, Old, Plants, pots, wooden benchLeave a comment

My garden bench looks a bit worn out. There’s a hole where the wood has rotted. Now it’s growing moss. There’s a small strawberry plant in a pot, and a few empty pots which I might fill up with flowers letter on.

I’m posting about gardening, but I haven’t been out much. The rain has been pouring down all month. Less flaming June, more flipping wet June!

I took this photo today, I might buy another bench. Perhaps a metal one? In the meantime I will continue to use this as a potting bench for now.

Peeling paint

Posted on May 29, 2022May 29, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Clouds, crystals, Imagination, Landscape, Life, Metal, painted, peeling, Photo, Planet, Sea2 Comments

What do you see? I see an archipelago of small islands in a deep blue sea. I think there are rocky shores and shallow waters around the islands.

Or it simply could be blue paint peeling off an old metal door. You can see the metal surface is made up of crystals, or perhaps its a decorative feature on the metal doors surface.

Or it could be strange clouds on a distant blue planet. Looking down from above or up at an azure sky.

Imagination is fun.

Dragon scales?

Posted on April 15, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Air, Art, Dragon, Duplicated, Life, Metal, Poem, Poetry, Scales, Sky, table topLeave a comment

Shiny table top duplicated.

Metal scales?

Shining body

Wingbeat buffeting

Clad in sky

Scales ripple in flight

As the air squeezes

Between them.

Fairy in a tree

Posted on January 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Fairies, Fairy, Metal, Sculpture, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, swing, Trentham Gardens, WireweavingLeave a comment

If you visit Trentham Gardens in Stoke on Trent you can find various wire woven fairies dotted around the grounds. Some are easier to spot than others. One flies down to a fountain to fill a watering can, another holds onto a huge dandelion seed head as it is caught in the wind. A warrior queen fairy stands on a plinth by the lake. I liked this one, hanging down from a branch in the trees on a swing. She’s hard to spot as the tree is an evergreen pine. She’s a welcome addition after walking around the lake.

Golden

Posted on November 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, British ceramic biennial, Drawing, golden, Metal, metallic felt pens, Sketching, TeapotLeave a comment

I tried to think of something golden to draw. I could have drawn a ring but decided on do a different object. This is based on a teapot I saw at the British Ceramic Biennial this year. I’ve emphasised the gold colour a bit. I’m not sure what type of ceramic it was made out of but I think the handle was metal. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt. Golden.

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

Posted on December 11, 2020December 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Christmas, Element, Frankincense, Gold, History, Incense, Metal, Myrrh, What are theyLeave a comment

I know what Gold is, a precious metal but I had to look up Frankincense and Myrrh were. According to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov :

Frankincense and myrrh are two olive plants from different species and genera. Frankincense is a hard, gelatinous resin exuded from the trunk incisions of the frankincense tree, Boswellia carterii Birdw. or other species in the genus Boswellia of the family Burseraceae, mainly from Somalia, Ethiopia, and India
Myrrh is an oily, gelatinous substance exuded from the bark of Commiphora myrrha Engl. or various other species of Commiphora, and can be classified as natural myrrh or colloid myrrh. Myrrh exists mainly in tropical and subtropical areas, such as Somalia, Ethiopia, and the southern Arabian Peninsula

Taken from:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles ›
So now you know!

December prompt

Posted on December 1, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, December, Drawing, Mechanical, Metal, Nee scientist magazine, Prompt, Sketching, Thermocouple4 Comments

Thermocouple fan sitting on top of the New Scientist magazine. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was mechanical and this was the first thing that came to hand….. Heat from a fire is converted via a thermocouple into energy to rotate the fan. It should sit on top of something like a log burner so the base gets hot but hubby has it lying down in front of the halogen heater…. He likes watching it whirl…

Giant metal frog

Posted on March 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Copper, Creative writing, Frog, Fun, Metal, Sci fi, Short story, Very short storyLeave a comment

Am I on Earth or an alien planet? I thought. I was walking around the lake, the ground was wet. In the distance I could see a metal spike rising up from the ground, with something sticking out, attached to it.

I got closer, the thing was clearly metallic, greenish copper coloured.

It was a sculpture of a frog, feet wrapped around the spike. It seemed to be looking at me? How? Its metal isn’t it?

Then it moved! One arm came up, it rubbed its eye in that odd way frogs do. It opened its mouth. .. The last thing I remember was its tongue flashing out, catching me round the neck. . The world faded.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Metal