Ee by gum!

Posted on September 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Dialect, Flat cap, Ill, Lamp, Photo, Phrase, Rain, YorkshireLeave a comment

Not sure what ‘ee by gum’ means, I think it’s a polite way of saying ‘oh by god’ without blaspheming. I know it’s a phrase from Yorkshire. Anyway this photo of my hubbies flat cap hung on a little apple tree along with a lamp just said ‘northern’ to me. Today the sunshine has gone, its raining, so everything is getting wet. I’m still feeling a bit ill so I’ve just decided to have another quiet day. There are things I should be getting on with but I don’t feel up to it.

Ee by gum, in Yorkshire dialect… I feel tired, hope I feel better soon….

Morning glory

Posted on September 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Buds, Flower, Garden, Life, Morning glory, Photo, Plant, Purple, Tendrils, Yard2 Comments

Several plants and one flower later! The other morning glory plants have buds on them. But the weather is set to be cold and wet from tomorrow, so they might all wilt! Anyway here is a tiny flower, I’m please it’s come out!

Is it a robot?

Posted on September 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Life, Photo, Playing, Robot, Torso2 Comments

Playing with a photo of the light through my back door. Turned through 90°. Added a bit of texture to create arms and a chin for its apparent head. I sort of see the torso of a robot made of transparent plastic. I think it looks OK. Playing, again, for fun.

Blog now, pay later…

Posted on September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Apps, Black and white, Chocolate, Instagram, Layout app, Milk chocolate, Photo, Photodirector, Sweet, Tasty2 Comments

Photo of milk chocolates that I was given today. Manipulated in Instagram and Photodirector. I shouldn’t eat them, I’ve had a couple ‘to sooth my throat’, hubby’s had some too…

Elaborated the photo by duplicating it in Layout. I like the way the strawberry chocolates somehow turned into mouth 👄 shapes. I rotated the images a few times before I came up with this set. I chose the title, by the way, because I’m not meant to have sugar!

Six years ago…

Posted on September 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Colour, Dorothy Clive garden, Garden, Life, Orange, Photo, Plants, Rhododendrons, Spring /summer2 Comments

Bright flowers, photo taken six years ago. I think it’s a rhododendron, glowing like an orange sun. Talk about flower power. I’m not going to try and duplicate or mirror this photo because it’s really stand alone.

This would have been taken at the Dorothy Clive Garden on the Shropshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire border. It has a quarry garden at the top of its slope which is full of beautiful rhododendrons in late spring and early summer. Do visit if you can. Visiting has been limited due to the virus but I do know they are open and you can find out more from their website.

Yellow flower

Posted on September 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Daisy, Dying, Flower, Gardening, Glowing, Grass, Photo, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Seed head, Yellow2 Comments

Yellow petals

Flag in grass

Filigree of leaves

A spidery web of filaments.

Daisy reflections

Crumpled and dying

Leaving the world

With less colour

Seed head to come

Holding yellow inside it

Hoping to grow

And glow

Year.

Sunset seed heads

Posted on September 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged aabstract, Art, Design, Mirrored, Photo, Seed heads, Silhouette, SunsetLeave a comment

Walking as the sunset, I saw these seed heads silhouetted against the sky. I thought they would make a fantastic photo and by mirroring it I think it makes an interesting composition. I used layout to do this. I also rotated it 90 degrees and added some effects in the photodirector app.

Flowers

Posted on September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Flowers, Intricate, Layout app, Life, Patterns, Photo, Plant support, PlantsLeave a comment

Used layout app to create this image of pink busy lizzies and a metal plant support. I just have fun playing with images. The pink and green are nicely contrasting colours, the smooth surface of the plant support adds more interest. The symmetry of the mirrored leaves and stems complete impossible and intricate patterns. They are natural and unnatural in equal amounts.

Floating chimneys

Posted on September 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Floating, Layout app, Photo, Pigeon, Poem, Poetry, Sky, Surreal, WorldLeave a comment

Floating in the sky

A pigeon

on a chimney

High.

Floating on a breeze

Greenery and trees.

Floating up above

Roof and gutter

I hear you mutter….

Floating up and up…

Big sink

Posted on September 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Accidental, Bathroom sink, Cracked, Life, Photo, Plumbing, Replaced, Sink, WaterLeave a comment

A few months ago I cracked our bathroom sink when I was dusting the bathroom cabinet. I’d knocked an ornament off it and it landed in the sink causing a spiderweb of cracks.

We just had it replaced. I wanted something with edges at the sides to stop water flowing over and onto the floor (hubby likes to splash water a lot). I decided on a square sink with sides, but I didn’t realise how big it was going to be! I laughed when I saw this. It could be a font! Anyway it’s OK, it works, it’s not bad. It’s just a bit big…..

Mallaband-Brown

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