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Autumn Pickings
As Autumn colours emerge I’m tempted by the season’s offerings and collect snippets from the garden. Berries, seed-heads, golden leaves intense and bright. I’m trying out my single-stem stone vases (also in autumnal hues) to show off my pickings.
NGS Open Garden
Looking out at the garden I see a bit of a wilderness – it is neglect – untouched by my gardening hands for a while, yet it is busy doing its thing very happily without me. A wild rose has self-seeded and is robustly scampering over everything so beautifully with pink delicate flowers that I’m […]
Noah’s Flower Festival, Lastingham
Mr and Mrs Noah – my contribution to Noah’s Flower Festival in Lastingham – they’re now in place to steer the ark and keep an eye on those giraffes, and all the other animals.
Meadow White
Meadow white emerges in billowing ball-shaped purity, fibrous inflorescence – fertilizing thought.
Giraffes in Lastingham
What a fabulous sight, suddenly they appeared, lifting their heads up out of the top of the church tower! They’re part of Noah’s Flower Festival in the village from the 10th to 19th July 2015 at St Mary’s Church, Lastingham. There’s an Ark, Animals, Flowers, Well Dressing and Music. On some evenings there are talks […]
Just scratching the surface
On Wednesday morning I had a bit of a dash over to Thirsk to Rural Arts where I had booked myself onto a Drypoint printmaking course tutored by Andy Dalton. The drypoint process – a printmaking technique in which an image is incised into a plate with a hard-pointed ‘needle’ of sharp metal – was explained. An […]
The Voice of Water
Where the silver wave with sweetness fed the tiny lives of grass I was bent above, my image mirrored in the fleeting glass, And a voice from out the water through my being seemed to pass. These are a few lines from George William Russell’s peom The Voice of the Waters. He’s talking […]
Staithes Studios Gallery
Yesterday I visited Staithes, as it was the opening day of the new Staithes Studios Gallery. The gallery is owned by Ian and Stef Mitchell, and is curated to reflect a passion for the natural, organic and abstract, offering a hand-picked range of contemporary fine art, applied craft, art materials and workshops. Staithes is […]
The Year in Books – June 2015
My May read H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald over-ran until now. I’m not sure why, but I made slow progress with it – and I did get lost and found it confusing at times and wonder about the ending. Why couldn’t she keep the bird whilst in moult? So, for what remains of June […]
Thoughts of Bop
Bop is a tiny, few week old Tawny Owl chick, found by Countryside Tales blog in the road, bleeding. The injured bird was quickly taken to someone who has expertise in wildlife rehabilitation who was able to care for it. I’ve been thinking about how lucky it was that someone who has understanding and knowledge of wildlife […]