Spooky lights

Posted on February 17, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eyes, Fun, Imagination, Life, Lights, Mouth, Pareidolia, Pattern, Pink, seeing things, TheatreLeave a comment

I saw this at tonight’s performance and it made me chuckle. The way the lights are set up looks like eyes and a mouth. The shadow above like a set of long wolf like ears! The pinkness is really dramatic.

I have always seen faces and patterns in everyday shapes. Like paintings of flowers that look like lions to me, or the spindly abstract pattern of tree branches turning into a galloping horse. It’s a phenomenon called Pareidolia.

This could also be a riotous robot, a frankenstein style monster, or a dancing ghost, see what I mean?

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.

Acer colour

Posted on November 28, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Acer, Colour, Gardening, Japanese Maple, Leaves, Life, Nature, other countries, Pink, Red, UK2 Comments

Photo from a couple of weeks ago, pinky red leaves on this Acer (Japanese Maple) shine out with brightness on a dull day. I saw this in a churchyard and just had to take a picture of it. The green coloured chlorophyll has been absorbed back into the main part of the plant and xanthophyll carotanoids and antoxcyanines remain (spellings might be wrong).

Some countries have more colour changes than in the UK. I guess our species tend towards yellows, oranges and browns as opposed to reds. I’d love to see a really spectacular autumn (fall).

Digital chrysanthemum

Posted on July 18, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, ArtRage app, Colour, Digital drawing, digital finger painting, Dots, Flower, Pink, Poem, Poetry2 Comments

Dots can make a picture

Layered on top of pink

Each and every one

Is a little link

To make a whole new flower

Digitally drawn

Made of dots and splodges

A digital flower is born

Rhododendrons are lovely

Posted on July 10, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged booms, Gardening, Growing, Life, Pink, Plants, Rhododendrons, Saplings, Shade2 Comments

But they don’t last long. The huge clusters of blooms soon brown and fade. They are great at the right time of the year, but then they are just big green bushes and they need underplanting to make them look more interesting. Here there are wild buttercups and ferns which were just growing below the rhododendrons. Mostly they shade out other plants and in some places they are cut back and removed because they are not native to the UK and they can spread and can be invasive. The shade they cast stops native saplings growing.

White hydrangea

Posted on July 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, flat heads, Gardening, Hydrangea, pale, Pink, Pot, Shady, Sunny, White6 Comments

I said we had got a white hydrangea a few days ago but it’s only just beginning to flower. It’s still in a pot, and looking closely it seems to be a very pale pink.

We had one a couple of years ago with conical instead of flat flower heads. But because it was very shady in the garden it didn’t thrive. That’s why this one is in its pot-so we can move it around… Anyway I think its lovely X.

Hydrangea blue

Posted on June 22, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Gardening, Grandmother, Growing, Hydrangea, Life, Memory, Pink, Plant, Planting, pots, Purple7 Comments

The bracts are developing to a purple blue. Such a lovely plant. It’s sitting in the yard but I think we will move it towards the house so it gets more light. I remember my grandmother having a hydrangea but hers was pink. I painted a portrait of her in front of it years ago. It grew in a big pot under the living room window. Just seeing this brings back memories of a strong and forthright woman. She knew what she thought and what she wanted.

Hydrangea

Posted on June 12, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged acidity, alkalinity, Blue, Gardening, Hydrangea, Life, Pink, Plant, Purple, shrub2 Comments

Little buds into purple flowers or bracts. The flowers on our new hydrangea are coming out. They were a surprise. Hydrangea usually have blue or pink flowers depending on the acidity or alkalinity of the soil. I’ve heard of people putting copper nails in the soil with them to change their colour. I don’t know if it works as its probaby a old wives tale? A good garden plant and can grow into a small shrub.

Growing

Posted on June 9, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alien, Green, Growing, Horror, Life, nutrients, Pink, Plant, Red, Sci fi, Stairs, stems, Very short storyLeave a comment

It’s still growing, she shouted…

He stood at the bottom of the stairs looking up.

Oh, it’s pushed the top off the jar!

She ran down the stairs….

What have you been feeding it? She asked him.

Just nutrients, he said.

As he spoke, the stems pulsed and coiled. Pink and red cells seemed to glow. Each second the plant or creature was getting larger. Then like a coiled spring toy, a slinky, it tumbled down the stairs…

Run she said. As trailing vines skittered across the floor… But he was rooted to the spot, a tendril found his ankle.

She ran and slammed the door behind her….

Nice flowers

Posted on May 26, 2023May 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged five petals, Flowers, Green, London pride, Pink, Plant, Saxifraga Urbium, stamens2 Comments

What is this? I think it might be London pride? (Saxifraga Urbium) according to Google. I had remembered the name London Pride from when I was a child, we had it in our garden, so looked it up and it seems to match up. I have some in the back yard on the wall and I think its meant to be an alpine plant, so it likes sunny conditions. I like the little five petaled star shaped flowers that have prominent stamens. I found the plant at a garden centre but the label was missing. Love the pale pink flowers against the dark green foliage.

Mallaband-Brown

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