Potting bench

Posted on May 16, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bench, bench life, Gardening, Life, Moss, potting on, rotted, tables, Trains, Varnish, Wood4 Comments

“We should be sitting on this!”

“But I need a table to pot on”

“Yes, but you have one”

“But it’s got my trains on”

“Well can you move them?”

“No, I’m making a layout, I got some ‘n’ gauge stock” “I want to build it up”.

Sigh, “OK but the plants can go in the garden, the bench needs varnish or something to protect it”.

I didn’t mention to hubby that the last bench was treated in the same way, the wood rotted and the bench collapsed. I bought new wooden slats, but ‘someone’ (hubby), nailed them on to something else….

Mossy

Posted on April 30, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blossom, Buds, Gardening, Green, Leaves, Life, Moss, Poem, Poetry, seasons, SpringLeave a comment

End of April,

the moss is greening nicely

Moist air, no sun

Cool showers..

Vitamin D

What’s that?

Buds burst

and leaves open fully

Spring sprang last week

Next flowers

Soon, fruit.

Twigs…

Posted on April 2, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Branches, Collage, Fungi, Life, Moss, Photos, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Trees, Weather, Wind, WorldLeave a comment

Twigs and branches

Boughs and trunks

In the winter shaken loose

March winds

Bend and break

Damaging weather

Lost limbs

Moss grows

Lichen too

Fungi found in boles

Hoots in holes.

Tree life.

Oak or Ash

April brings

Soak or splash.

Old boathouse Rode Hall

Posted on May 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Boat house, Day out, Lake, Landscape, Moss, Rode hall, Staffordshire, View, VisitLeave a comment

Rode Hall View. Walking down from the hall to the lake. At the end of the pathway is this old boathouse. I didn’t get a look inside so I don’t know if there is a boat in there or not. There’s a lot of moss growing on the roof, so it might be quite damp in there. At least there is a life saver ring on the back of it, so if anyone fell in they could be rescued.

Little demon

Posted on April 6, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Car, demon, Design, Fun, Life, Mirrored, Moss, Nature, Photo, TwigsLeave a comment

Can you see him? A face, arms, body, and legs. Funny what you can see in a few twigs and a lump of moss. Try using a mirror to see what reflections can make from an image. Then use a smartphone app to duplicate and twist your chosen image. Finally adjust the colours and bring out the details if you can. And voila a grumpy demon.

Moss on our car

Posted on April 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Car, Clean, Covid, Green, Moss, Nature, old car, Plants, Staying safe, Washing, windscreenLeave a comment

I haven’t bothered to wash the car for months. I hardly drive it unless we are going for a walk round Westport Lake and that’s only a few miles. Why?

Covid, keeping away from people.

Fuel costs, I’ve only filled it up about six times in a year.

Walking to the shops. I’m slow and shaky but the car is not needed.

My shaking arm, its uncomfortable to drive.

So I was deciding whether to wash it, but I found this little mound of moss. I think I will let it be. Let nature take its course. After all I can always get a bucket of water on it. Its old and hard to get parts, but it’s a good car.

Tree with wide arms

Posted on May 18, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Branches, cemetery, cracks, Life, limbs, Moss, Nature, Photo, Poem, Poetry, split, TreeLeave a comment

You spread your arms

And reach out

Touching other trees.

Bark and moss

Cracks and splits

But you stand strong

Encompassing the land

Shading the ground

Leaf and branch.

Happy nature.

Wall

Posted on February 5, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bricks, lichen, Moss, patina, Photo, rising damp, salts, tide mark, Wall, WetLeave a comment

Damp old farm wall, just down the road. Ideal for a housing development apparently. I really want it to be restored. To keep the building. To keep the heritage of the little village it is in.

Most of all though, I love the patina of it. How wet must it be on the other side to create this tide mark of water and lichen, moss and salts. I love it, I might paint it!

Moss on a wall

Posted on January 18, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Coal, coal smoke, Environment, Gladstone pottery museum, Green, Life, Moss, Nature, Pollution, Potteries Museum and art galleryLeave a comment

Moss klinging to the church wall. That wall is blackened by years of coal smoke pollution that was burnt on house hearths and to fire up the bottle ovens that fired the pottery made in old factories. In those days I doubt that moss would have grown on the church wall even in Penkhull village which stands on a hill above most of the city. The city has transformed over the years and is now much cleaner.

You can see photos of the hundreds f bottle ovens that crowded the city. The smoke belched out of them. Look up the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery and Gladstone Pottery Museum on the net for more information.

Walking

Posted on November 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Countryside, Forest, Lost, Moss, Setting sun, Track, Tree moss, Walking, Wooded pathLeave a comment

I like a wooded track to walk along, away from roads and fumes, especially if its a link between two places I want to get to and from. But strangely I don’t like to walk in woodland. I worry I will get lost. I’ve walked around some places and lost track of where we were. I even tried looking for the moss on the side of the trees to see if I could decide which way was north! Luckily the sun came out so I could tell which way was west, then I saw a way marker! I can’t imagine going to somewhere in a wood in the countryside and finding my way out! You can tell I’m nervous of it because of the number of exclamation marks I’ve used!

But a gentle walk along a wooded path in the town? That’s fine… Funny how different things affect different people.

Mallaband-Brown

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