As I walk

Posted on March 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, grandma, Life, March winds, Memories, Photo, Spring, today's tree, Tree, Walking, WeatherLeave a comment

As I walk I’m looking at trees, I’m waiting for the buds to burst, the leaves to stretch and expand. But we need some rain now to get the buds to swell. Then I will have more idea of what these trees are.

Oak before Ash,

In for a Splash.

Ash before Oak,

In for a soak….

The old rhyme of what to expect from the weather this Spring…

Also the weather has been very windy after a quiet start to March.

The saying for that is :

In like a Lamb

Out like a Lion.

(it can be vice versa), old weather saws that my grandma told me…

Pears in sunlight

Posted on March 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bowl, Colours, Fruit, Gardening, Kitchen, Life, Light, Pears, Photo, Spring, Sunlight, Weather2 Comments

I could crop this photo to tidy it up…but the bits of blue sky reflected off the sink and the red bowl, top left, seem to add interest. I have windows on both sides of the kitchen, dual aspect I think they call it? So I get lots of light in the kitchen on sunny days as the sun climbs higher in the sky.

Spring is coming, I can feel the warmth in the sunshine. The trees are about to come into leaf, buds of blossom will be bursting, pink and white clouds. I will have to get out and prune things like our buddliea bushes. They are thugs! And the pears? They remind me we should get our crop from our pear tree later in the year….

Reflections

Posted on March 15, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Art, Cold, Instagram, Lake, Layout app, Mirrored, Photos, Walk, Water, Weather, Westport lake, WetLeave a comment

I love using mirroring to change how a photo looks. You can do it vertically (top), horizontally (middle) or both (bottom).

I called them ‘Westport mirrored’, ‘I see frogs’ and ‘stained glass westport’.

I used the layout app which can be used to post images to both Facebook and Instagram. I’m on Instagram @mallabandbrown or #mallabandbrown (I never know which it is!) if you want to see more of my art.

Pinchetel

Posted on March 14, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, day 42, Exercise, Hill, Honeywall, Hubby, Penkhull, pinchetel, Stoke-on trent, Time, Tired, Walking, Weather, wet and windyLeave a comment

Three miles walked today round the village in a city of Penkhull. Part of Stoke on Trent. To reach the village centre we decided to walk up a hill called Honeywall, past the Beehive public house and this sign erected in 2011 by the Penkhull Residents Association. Instead of continuing straight up the hill we walked down an interesting side road and then right an up to the Church of St Thomas which stands on the village green. As we walked past a flower bed we spotted these bottles decorated as bottle ovens with a top hatted figure standing next to them. Then we walked down and around Thistley Hough and finally by circuitous routes home to make sure the walk was long enough. I’ve only walked about 22 miles this week, a bit down on last week, but the weather has been wet and windy, and my hubby doesn’t want to walk to far, but I feel fitter (and tired). Day 42!

Bottle oven combination

Posted on March 11, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bottle oven, Canal, Landscape, multiple photos, Photos, Shelton, Stoke-on trent, Trent and mersey canal, WeatherLeave a comment

Same bottle oven, six different views, three of the oven, three reflected in the surface of the Trent and Mersey canal. Today I walked four and a half miles. We were doing mostly flat walking although there are a few uphill stretches where the locks allow water to be lowered in stages down hill, the barges float into the locks which are either emptied and the water and barge move downhill, or filled, so the barge moves up hill. We noticed a lot of debris from trees and litter was floating in the canal, the weather was so windy yesterday its blown in…

Come in cat!

Posted on March 10, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Gale, Hail, Night, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Rhyme, Storm, Tuxedo cat, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Come on cat

Come on in

It’s blowing a gale

And raining hail

A storm is coming

And you’re outside

I’ve called your name

But instead you hide!

Come on in cat

Don’t be shy

There’s food here for you

Through the storm, fly

Run in now

Listen to my call

Don’t stay out

Through the heavy rain fall!

Come in

Be comfy

Stay a while

Be warm and happy

Prodigal feline in style.

Twigs

Posted on February 7, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Layout app, Life, Pattern, Poem, Poetry, Storm, Trees, Weather, WindLeave a comment

Oh what patterns they make

Waving in the air

Wind sighing and soughing

Rattling the twigs,

Scudding clouds scuttling.

Crossing the moon.

Witches fingers claw the sky

Bristling branches riding high.

Each security light blinks

On and off

On and off..

Mad morse code

Storm warning

Where does snow come from?

Posted on January 24, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Child, Cold, Feathers, Landscape, Poems, Poetry, Questions, Weather, WhiteLeave a comment

Mummy?

Yes dear?

Is it falling feathers?

Or dandruff from god?

Is it ripped paper

White ash?

Is it magnolia petals

Or rose flowers?

Duck down

From the sky..

Could it be dessicated coconut?

I’ve never seen white flakes

Gently landing

Painting the ground

And trees

Covering the land

And houses?

Dearest

It’s Snow.

Winter used to be cold

And white.

Frozen water

Hexagonal delight.

Snow

Posted on January 2, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged beast from the East, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Snow, tin cat, Weather, Winter, yellow catLeave a comment

It came again…

Startled the cat

Turned it yellow with fright.

Another beast from the East?

That’s what they are saying.

Cold comfort

In a cold world

Well it didn’t snow!

Posted on December 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #don't like it, Annoyed, Life, Mist, New years eve, Snow, Sunshine, Weather, window view, WordPressLeave a comment

I was hoping for a new layer of snow instead we got mist. There is still a bit of lying snow but the roads and pavements are clearer. Might go for a walk later….

Apart from that WordPress has reverted to block editor again…. Clearly they don’t like us old fuddy duddies that prefer the classic version. Grr….

Mallaband-Brown

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