Tag: wildlife
Otters
I’m still reading Otter Country by Miriam Darlington – and loving it! Early in the book she writes that after reading Henry Williamson’s Tarka the Otter she was so enthralled and spell-bound by otters, that ‘for months afterwards I felt like I was an otter’. It was so exciting to read this, as it […]
Otter Country
The book Otter Country – in search of the wild otter, by Miriam Darlington, I think may be my best Christmas present this year. As soon as I had opened it, I just wanted to settle down quietly, and disappear into the story. The reviews on the back cover heighten the anticipation – […]
Weasel Sculpture
Wildlife is a constant inspiration for my sculpture – infused with the feeling of weasel after watching one bounding and zig-zagging in the field by my workshop, I wanted to carve one. I chose my favourite Yorkstone to carve the weasel, mainly because it is a stone I know well and all my energy […]
Autumn Feeling
With the damp, misty starts and colours turning it is beginning to feel very Autumnal. It is a season I love. Today was warm, the rain was warm and the sheep in the next field stood sheltering, all still, but for chewing, and I caught their thick lanolin smell heavy in the air. I smelled […]