Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Teacher, teacher

A Great Tit is giving it some. He is so vocal and insistent, I think he has gone a little mad.
He is in my 'new' garden, reduced in its supply of nesting places. I hope the Tits find somewhere.

It is fresh and bright this morning after a little early rain.

Sunday, 3 March 2013

Not much about today

Today at 4.30 pm, the temperature is 6 degrees and the wind has veered to a more southerly direction.
It is comparatively mild.

The usual suspects are here: Sparrows, Chaffinches and Red-legged Partridge..

There are some sweet little things singing on a wire where there are always sweet little things singing!

I never take my binoculars  when I do this walk every day, but I will have to from now on if I ever want to identify them. There were Rooks , but a complete absence of the ever numerous Red Kite.

A lovely evening for a walk, but not much birdlike in evidence.

Saturday, 2 March 2013

Waxwing

I was out for my normal walk today.
I set off about 15.50.

I went first down Mill Lane, up to the allotments and back.

It was cold, no more than 4 degrees all day.
It was quite windy and that made my eyes water.


Anyway to get back to the Waxwing.

I saw it in the village as I returned today by the same route.

He caught my eye as he was rather unusual and very handsome.

I made a mental note of his head crest, black throat and dark eyes with white flashes.

Instinctively I knew ; Waxwing, but I needed to be sure.

Positive confirmation achieved on my return home.


He was alone: body feathers were brown but his crest and throat colours were vivid.
He was at shoulder height in a bush. My memory on these points are sketchy, but I think he was eating berries? Please don't ask me what berries they were, as I could be inventing this part of the observation.

I so enjoyed watching him, even though it was through tears running due to the cold.

Will upload photo tomorrow!


Thursday, 17 January 2013

art and how it will progress

the art future




this is what i will do from now on:

 a limited palette

nature

book making

collographs

photography

 stitching

dyeing

rusting

tea bags

hand made paper

ink drawings

collage

jewellery, but not like anybody else's

feelings

writing

meaningful

annotated
 

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INTERESTS

art design history beliefs nature

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Snow

Snow over most of the country, even we got some.

Sunday, 7 October 2012

Sale of art works

This blog is where I will offer some of my work for sale.

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

camping

don't think it's possible to camp this year
not with the rain and the baby coming