Rushing by…

Posted on November 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bad rhyme, Life, Poem, Poetry, Rush, Snowdonia, Travel, Wales, WritingLeave a comment

_20191002_184359_optimized Over the hills,

Rushing by,

Stony landscape, see it fly.

Fences blurred, ground so grand.

Limestone cliffs across the land.

Sheep and birds, flocks and herds,

Many miles across we sped,

Down to sea the river led.

Craggy hills round Snowdon lie,

Reaching up into the sky.

Grey clouds scudded on breeze up high.

Rushing wind makes me cry,

As the weather bites, cold again,

Then it comes on to rain.

End of journey, time to rest.

A drink of tea or coffee, best?

A sweet hot cake, a refreshing drink.

Then into bed, in sleep, to sink.

Half way home

Posted on October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Daydream, England, Hills, Homeward, Journey, Life, Sunshine, Travelling, Wales, Welsh hills2 Comments

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We’ve found a place to stop for lunch when we are driving home through the hills of North Wales. Its about halfway or a little less. Before you come back down the hill into Wrexham and cross the border into England. On a sunny day its good to stop for a refreshing cup of tea and maybe a scone or a salad.

With all the rain we have just had I wish we were back up in the hills. Bathed in sunshine, watching fish in the pools.

It’s a pleasant daydream instead of watching water run down the glass of the living room window. Hearing it patter onto the window ledge from the guttering, spattering the plants. Letting moss grow on next doors roof…..

Sunshine, that’s what I need. Xx

What are these plants?

Posted on October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bodnant Gardens, Colour, Flowers, Green, North Wales, Plant, Red, Spikey, WalesLeave a comment

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I know the plants at the back but what are they at the front? Spikey little rosettes with little red flowers. Like little hens hiding in grass! I know a lot of things but not this and didn’t see a label to explain what they are. Seen at Bodnant Gardens in North Wales last Thursday.

Last two days sketching in Wales…

Posted on October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Black and white drawings, Bodnant garden, Life, Llandegla, Pen and ink drawings, Prestatyn, Sketching, Urban sketches, WalesLeave a comment

The first one is various daisy flowers, cone flowers, asters and grasses in the fountain flower bed at Bodnant Garden.

Then there is a drawing of pine trees and evergreens. Waterplants and other species. With an added Robin, along pools and a stream, at Bodnant.

The third is my hubby walking on the beach at Prestatyn this morning. He was trying to fly a balsa wood plane in drizzle and rain….

Finally, sitting in the car looking at Llandegla Forest this afternoon. Door open, just while I was waiting for my hubby.

Prestatyn beach

Posted on October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Beach, Drawing in the sand, Merhorse, Prestatyn, Sea, Seafront, Seahorse, Seaside, WalesLeave a comment

Cold, wet and windy. But Prestatyn beach this morning was also clean and sandy. The rain showers blew over and although the sun didn’t shine it did try and break through the clouds.

The seahorse is something I drew on the spur of the moment. I usually try and draw a running horse, but this one wanted to be wrapped in mystery, my hubby called it a Merhorse.

Rainbow is here!

Posted on October 4, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Llangollen, Photo, Rain, Rainbow, Sunshine, WalesLeave a comment

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It’s turned up! I think it’s because I deleted about 80 pictures. The colours are not as intense as I saw them, but cameras and eyes work differently. If I had taken this on film I would have used iso 400 film (I don’t even know if they make it any more). It would have enhanced the depth of colours.

Grr camera problems

Posted on October 4, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Llangollen, Not enough memory, Photos, Rainbow, River, Travel, WalesLeave a comment

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I took a beautiful photo of a very strong, bright, double rainbow, when we were in Llangollen earlier today. It was the best rainbow I’ve ever seen. But my mobile phone is not working well. If I put something on Instagram it duplicates the photo. It also seems to duplicate other photos. I keep having to delete lots of photos (which I did this afternoon after missing the spectacular rainbow). The photos are Mb not Kb. I wish I knew how to change the file sizes. I will have to find out how.

Red sky

Posted on October 3, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Atlantic, Duvet, Ex hurricane, Ireland, Irish sea, Rain, Sea, Sleep, Storm, Wales, WeatherLeave a comment

Red sky this morning, harbinger of bad weather. An ex hurricane no less is on its way. Now the curl of wind and rain is arriving, heavy rain washing down the sides of the caravan, beating the roof. Trees bending in the prevailing wind so their branches form the characteristic bent double pose, like a person turning their back to the wind and leaning forward, head down to try and avoid being blown over.

Time to hunker down and keep warm while the storm whirls out to sea, its winds whipping up the waves. To shuffle as far as you can under the duvet until it is snatched away from you by human hands not the wind! Listening into the night for possible broken branches. (Only its more likely to be a damp squib as I’ve just heard on the weather forecast that it’s mainly going to track up the west coast of Ireland and the Irish Sea?)

My romantic idea of a dark and stormy night? So much for red skies in the morning!

Autumn flowers

Posted on October 3, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Bees, Bodnant, Bodnant garden, Colour, Design, Environment, Flowers, Gardens, Life, Pattern, Plants, Poem, Poetry, WalesLeave a comment

Bright colours

Extend the season,

Bishop of Llandaff,

Daliahs, Red.

Verbina and ice plants

Feed the bees.

Roses and autumn crocuses.

Asters and cone flowers

All sparkle and show.

Dont fade yet,

Wait for the snow.

Bodnant Gardens, Wales

Posted on October 3, 2019October 3, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged A470, Beauty, Blogging, Bodnant, Conwy, Day out, Environment, Llandudno, National Trust, North Wales, Visit, WalesLeave a comment

The weather is changing, getting colder, wet and windy and the leaves are starting to change on the trees.

The Acers are the ones that turn deep red and orange, at the same time the seed pods also turn bright red.

All of thus beauty can be found at Bodnant Gardens in the Conwy Estuary, near Llandudno in Wales. Travel along the A55 and turn off at Llandudno junction and take the A70. Up and down some hills you will see a National Trust sign on your left hand side. Follow the long drive up to the car park up a hill on the left. There is a green pavilion at the bottom of the carpark by the drive and you walk down and past it into a landscaped spiral ramp down to a tunnel under the road and into the garden centre, shops, and entrance into the gardens.

There are tall trees, pines, redwoods, Acers and oaks. Autumn flowers and mountains in the distance. Formal and informal gardens surround the Bodnant Hall with an old conservatory or greenhouse attached to it. There is no entrance to the hall but there is plenty to see anyway.

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Tag: Wales