When nature does its awesome thing 🖤
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Crepuscular clouds
Month: July 2021
Dancing poppy
I think they look so pretty when falling apart, like a ballerina made of petals.
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Charlock mustard
There has been lots of bug activity since the weather warmed, less on the honey bee front. Now a few of the tubes in the bee Hotel are blocked up there doesn’t seem to be as many visitors. I’m new to watching Bees so this might be their normal seasonal routine (although there have been a number of them the last few days on the lavendar).
For bumble bees and hoverflies, there have been tons. Seems that the charlock mustard is a big favourite. Many different types of hovefly and buff tailed bumblebees amongst others. Daily activity on this, so much so I can’t bring myself to scale it back until it stops flowering, it’s not a small plant. Then I guess it will go to seed and I may just pick them and see what I can do with them.
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Sunrise – 09.07.21
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Foraging for berries in the garden
Yesterday was my first proper forage of the year. I thought it might be nice to film it, so you can see how you can get a good yield from just a small bush or area. I have 3 planter boxes about 2 meters long and a foot wide, with two small patches of ground for flowers and things too. The boxes have a lot going on with potatoes, herbs, poppies, jasmine and wild strawberries.
I bought 3 extra small planters about 2 ft square to put on the concrete outside the house, to make the most of that sunny patch and get as much on the go as I can for the insects and spiders to make their home in. Mostly flowers but I moved the goosebery bush in Spring as last year it had no berries. Must have been a good move as there are loads this year.
Ended up with a rather good bounty for the first sweep 😁
The birds don’t seem to help themselves to any of the fruit, but they have plenty of insects and bird food to keep them busy so far. I don’t mind sharing though, in fact my dog likes strawberries so as I pick them i have to share as I go!
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It can’t be stopped… (poetry)
It can’t be stopped
What now unfolds
It looks so weird
What the future holds
It’s not by accident
But pure design
We’re trying hard
To hold the line
But it’s the line
That they keep moving
Just as fast
As we are disproving
All the nonsense
And all the mystery
But can’t keep up
As they rewrite history
Changing that
Which we already knew
Convincing many
That lies are true
So now we’re faced
With a growing threat
And one in our lifetime
We have not met
Time will tell
If the numbers can see
Just what is being set
For a new reality
~
Because it doesn’t look good from where I’m sitting…
Rhyme and Reason
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Black and white paintings #1
Turns out I really do enjoy painting trees, and with the new style I’m doing it requires a black, white and grey painting first before the colour glaze is added after with oil paints.
I have decided to keep a couple of them without colour as they are very pleasing to my eye, it’s thoroughly satisfying being able to create these. Just finding the time is difficult at the moment.
Light, shadows, depth and perspective is something I have always wished I could do with drawing or painting. I finally found a medium I can explore that with. And mixed with another favourite, nature.
There have been a few other experimental pieces which I’ll share over the coming days. Some have worked ok, some not so much, but still have something about them. We’ll see where it goes from here.
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New Design – Red Carnation
I’m getting round to uploading all my new designs, there are over 40 new ones for 2021, so lots of new nature patterns coming up! Here is Red Carnation (MKW-VN.755), available on over 90 different products, check them out and see what your favourite is.
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Poppy petal
It rained overnight last week and one of the fallen poppy petals was looking rather pretty in the morning.
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The Graveyard. — Wild Heart
I don’t rightly know how I got here. Or at least. I couldn’t rightly tell you. My brain is telling awful fibs these days. But I am here all the same. I enter cautiously. Tentatively. Do I really belong here? It’s a question my mind pushes to the peak of the pile most days. But […]
The Graveyard. — Wild Heart
A beautiful piece of writing from Dawood Qureshi – The Graveyard.
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