Reds..

Posted on June 28, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back yard, Colour, Flowers, Fushias, Gardening, Health, Pelagoniums, Poppies, RedLeave a comment

These are a few of my favourite red plants. Well petals not leaves. I love poppies and chuck in a few pelagoniums and fushias.

Photos from a couple of years ago. I’d have planted up a lot of annuals by now but I have had bigger bills to pay, and having problems with shaking and weaker muscles means I cannot shift flowerpots around like I used to. I do hope my health improves. I have to rely on (argue with) hubby to move things about. Anyway I’ll post photos once I’m satisfied with what it looks like.

Waiting for cherries

Posted on June 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cherries, Cherry tree, Food, Fruit, Gardening, Life, not ready yet, Red, Ripening, Sweet, Tasty8 Comments

Three years ago our cherry crop was already picked. The tree came from the old Woolworths shop in Stoke about twenty five years ago. It must have been happy because now it’s about thirty feet high.

The cherries are starting to ripen, but they are not ready yet. Maybe next week we can reach the lower ones. The rest we donate to the birds. One thing I need to do is buy a big umbrella, it really helps to stop the cherries we pick from rolling off into the undergrowth!

Common poppy

Posted on June 25, 2023June 25, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged common poppy, Gardening, Green, Life, Poppy, Pretty, Red, red poppy, Welsh poppy, yellow poppyLeave a comment

On the pavement outside our garden this little beauty I’d flowering. I think its out of a packet of wild flower seeds that my husband scattered a few months ago. It’s a surprise as the majority of poppy’s we have in the garden are yellow “Welsh” poppies. I love the crinkly way the petals expand. I’m hoping we get a few more soon.

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….

Bench

Posted on June 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bench, Black, Blue, Car park, Fence, forlorn, Grass, Life, Magpie, Old buildings, pied wagtail, Red2 Comments

On my walk this morning I found this forlorn bench. It was just on a path on a patch of grass. I didn’t take a photo of its view, because it overlooks a car park and then some old buildings.

I did notice a Magpie (hello Mr magpie, how’s your wife is a saying to dispel sorrow caused by a single Magpie) and a little pied wagtail nearer the fence. I wish the street furniture was a different colour. The bench, bin and fence look somber in black, although that matches the birds. Maybe a nice shade of blue or red? Who knows….

Going to a new home

Posted on April 5, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Atmosphere, Autumn, Blue, Colour, Damp, Fine Art, Life, misty, Orange, Painting, Red, Umbrella6 Comments

Autumn painting. A woman with a red umbrella walks through a damp and misty forest with leaves scattered around. I worked from a photo someone lent me so I don’t know who’s photo it was. If there is a copyright issue I will delete this post.

I had problems with the body length and the length of the legs, trying to get them and the arms in proportion. I had to play with the colours and shadows to try and get a realistic light on the figure. I also tried to make the trees bluer to send them back into the distance.

Red sky in the morning!

Posted on March 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged automatic photography, bad weather, bright red, Dawn, Exposure, lurid red, manual photography, over exposed, phone photo, Red, Sunrise2 Comments

Amazing how red the sunrise was this morning!

There was a bright red sunrise this morning. If I take the photo on automatic it looks too bright, almost overexposed. So I tried one on manual and dialed down the brightness which was deeper red and more like my own vision.

Red sky this evening

Posted on February 19, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Clouds, Colour, manual mode, North, Photo, Pink, Red, Reflection, Sky, Stoke, Stoke-on trentLeave a comment

Using manual settings for this photo of the sunset reflection off the clouds. I didn’t have the chance to go up to the top of our hill, but the colour was glorious. This is looking north towards the centre of Stoke. I love it when the sky gets a warm glow and blossoms pinky red.

Water is blue

Posted on February 19, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Colour, Green, h2o, Ocean, Photo, Purple, Red, Sea, Sky, Water, YellowLeave a comment

How do i know the water is blue? Surely it’s transparent. But look at the sea. As you go deep into it you can see it stays blue until you go deep when it’s black. Then look at water at sunset. It stays blue even when the sky turns red doesn’t it? And in yellow white sunshine its very blue. Not green, not yellow, not red, not purple – Blue.

Red sky tonight

Posted on February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, Bright, Colour, Evening, Gold, Night, Orange, Poem, Poetry, Red, silhouettes, Sketching app, Sun, SunsetLeave a comment

I saw the sky this evening

Turned bloody orange

As if on fire

Light streaming through

Branches and trees

Illuminating a landscape

Still dry from lack of rain.

The hedge behind us

Was split by the light

A shaft of red and gold

For telling bright weather

And clear skies

And stars

For the night ahead…..

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Red