Career? What career?

Posted on May 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Bad rhymes, career, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1933, Flower, Petals, Poem, Poetry, Sad, WorkLeave a comment

What is your career plan?

My life is like an open flower

Petals may soon drop

A career I had

But it is gone

Retired and tired I am.

Work over now

Unless I have

To seek

A few hours here

A few more there

To keep going on.

I wish I could restart time

And make a change to life

Perhaps the years

I toiled at work

Would have been better spent.

My life was dull

To some extent

I played the game of life

The early morns

The evenings dark

When I came home again.

I’m glad that I escaped to art

And life began once more.

Reflection…

Posted on May 7, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blossom, Countryside, Life, Nature, Petals, Photo, Picture, puddle, Random, Reflected, Twigs, Water2 Comments

It looks like blossom, but it’s actually a puddle with trees reflecting in it then wind born bits of twig and flower petals floating on top. I thought it looked interesting and unless you look closely it’s really hard to tell what’s going on. Anyway this is from Rode Hall again. I also took lots of pictures of benches dotted around the grounds. I might post a few photos here. There is a Bench Appreciation group on Facebook that I shared them to. I wonder if there is an abstract nature page for this sort of photo?

Tulip close up

Posted on April 28, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Close up, Flower, Fun, Gardening, Green, Petals, Photography, Pink, Tulip, Waves, wrinkled2 Comments

Exciting. Yes to me, this wrinkled flower is changing by the day. If the weather warms up it might open in the next couple of days. Green and pink? Will it change colour too? Concentrating on one flower, but it looks interesting to me. It reminds me of a stormy sea. Waves crashing against each other….. Ooo I’m so excited!

Fushias

Posted on March 1, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bushes, Flowers, Fushias, Life, Nature, Petals, Portmeirion pottery, skirts, Spring, SummerLeave a comment

Six months ago these were still flowering. The bushes are outside Portmeirion pottery and always cheer me up when I see them. Now we have reached meteorological spring they should start to transform again from dry looking sticks to flowering stars.

Fushias are beautiful hanging flowers. They can be simple like these or delicate like ballerinas with swirling pink or red skirts or double flowers like flamenco dancers. You can get all sorts of varieties of them. I think they are called F1 hybrids?

Flower finger painting

Posted on January 16, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Chrysanthemum, Digital drawing, Flower, Green, mobile app, Orange, Petals, Sketch app, Symmetry tool2 Comments

A digital drawing of a flower, perhaps a chrysanthemum? Drawn in a sketching app on my phone that has a symmetry tool. It means that as you draw a curve it can be mirrored, or made symmetrical on different axises, (not sure if that’s the right word). Doing a finger painting is hard to control. I do have a stylus for my screen but I don’t know where it is. Perhaps I could have done a better job with it. The sketch app is not one I use that often.

Poppy idea

Posted on October 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Petals, Plants, Poppy, Rain, rain drops, Remembrance, sketching drawing, WeatherLeave a comment

I’m trying to design a poppy painting that could also be used on a card. I’ve decided to have a poppy in the rain with drops of water on it. I wanted to signify remembrance and sadness without being too grim. I think I will paint this and see how it looks. X

Vinca

Posted on May 4, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flower, Gardening, low growing, outdoor plant, Petals, Purple, scrambling, Shade, Spiral, Spring, Vinca2 Comments

This little purple flower with a white centre with five spiralling petals is called a Vinca. It has glossy dark green leaves and sprawls across the ground under dappled shady patches. We used to have some in our garden but I think the shade got too deep and other plants grew over it. We will have to try again. It cheers me to see this purple among the muted colours of helibores and fading tulips. Soon the summer will arrive and the flowers will change again.

Red rose

Posted on April 15, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Closed website, Digital drawing, Petals, Red, red rose, Rose, Sketchfu, Sketching, Sketching app2 Comments

I found some more Sketchfu drawings that I drew on my computer years ago. I’d forgotten about them. Thank goodness for Facebook memories. Glad I’ve got them. I will post a few more on the next few days x

Camellia

Posted on March 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged camellia, Flowers, Green leaves, Leaf, Light, Orange, Petals, Pink, Spring, Sunlight, YellowLeave a comment

Beauty on a spring morning. Petals turned toward the sun. Glistening pink surfaces. Yellow/orange centres. They look edible, like gorgeous sweets. Crisp and crunchy, or like cupcake icing. Sugar lumps of tasty colour. Then the dark green shining leaves. They add a polished background to their jewel like flowers. How strong they grow in early spring. The frost sometimes nibbles petal and leaf. But on a bright sunlight morning, what better sight.

Fully open

Posted on January 6, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Amaryllis, Flower, Green, Indoor plant, Kitchen, Petals, Photo, Pink, White, winter plantLeave a comment

Fully open amaryllis flowers. They cheer the kitchen up. I don’t think they will last much longer but they are beautiful at the moment. There is a pink blush on the edges of the petals and a green tint in the centre of the flower and running up the middle of the petals.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Petals