Thistles

Posted on June 17, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Green, Growth, Houses, Life, maintained, pavements, Plants, Streets, Thistle, vegetation, WeedsLeave a comment

Plants love growing, their seeds sneak in cracks, send down roots and push up paving, this thistle is an example of one. Looking round my area the streets are less littered with litter and more by plants. I’m not calling them weeds, they are wild vegetation. I don’t really mind them, except where they grow in front of and on doorsteps. I do think that the streets used to get maintained in a better way. I don’t think I’d like a lot of weed killer to be used, but I hope things can improve soon. Hopefully owners could do a little hand weeding.

Went for a walk

Posted on January 30, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Escape, Exercise, Legs, local area, Relaxation, starting out, Streets, Time, Tired, Walk, Walking3 Comments

We went for a short walk today, just round the local streets, back past an avenue of trees. It was only about a mile but I came back aching, cold and a bit breathless so it was far enough. After months of illnesses and problems I was pleased to drag my hubby out into the cold air. No rain today, no chance of slipping, just the chance to stretch my legs and think I can start again. I hope we can extend our steps a little bit each day. I didn’t measure them because I forgot to take my phone. Now I’m just trying to relax the aches out of my leg and back. But it’s good to feel able to exercise again.

Your face is a map

Posted on April 13, 2022April 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Architecture, Art, arteries, boulevards, Building, Drawing, Face, Map, Roads, Sketching, Streets, Thinking, VeinsLeave a comment

Ink bleeds through paper. Draw around those patches, lines and dots, and you get a patchwork ‘map’ that looks like roads and boulevards, streets and squares. A change of colour for city blocks. Villages line up on roads between fields. Some streets are tree lined, others are concrete. Does it show your age? Are you industrial or agrarian? Modern or ancient? Fortified? Or do you see veins, arteries and capillaries?

Snowy walk home

Posted on December 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Icy, Legs, Life, Pavement, Road, Snowy, Streets, Strides, Tired, Walking2 Comments

A half mile from home along slippery, icy streets. The air was getting colder, falling below zero, ice crystals making Frost on the road surface. Not enough gritting? They were out later.

When you walk with someone with long strides and you only have little legs you have to move faster to keep up. That’s OK in normal weather, but in snow and ice its difficult. I got over it by holding hands and telling him not to pull me over! We got home safely.

Flower power

Posted on August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bees, cracks, Flowers, Kerbs, Pavement, Photos, Roads, Streets, Urban landscape, Weeds, Wild flowersLeave a comment

Took a few photos of wild flowers (or weeds) this morning. Things for bees to feed on. But I didn’t see any bees.

The city seems to be full of plants pushing themselves up through cracks in the pavement and along the kerbs of roads. I also saw that green areas which were once lawns now covered in wild grasses and flowers with just a meter round the edge cut back. I did notice that the local main road that was covered in wild flowers a couple of weeks ago have now been weedkiller. The worry is that any bees that sipped from them when they were sprayed will have been poisoned. Madness. I’d rather have weeds than dead bees.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Streets