Is it that time already

Standing in the garden at 0400hrs today I stood for a moment and gazed at the stars, then I decided to cut short my morning coffee in order to take a couple of photographs, well you never know when the skies will be clear again. As I focussed the camera I noticed a couple of stars poking above the Pennines and realized that it was Orion making an appearance, I hadn’t realized the season was that far on. Anyway, here’s Jupiter and Venus above the Pennines, lets hope for plenty…

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Leaf by Graeme

I was thinking of this painting while I was down in the wood earlier and scanned through my posts here to find it and couldn’t. So, here’s an old painting (well 2007) along with the poem that went with it. And here is the poem… LEAF BY GRAEME If I could choose a leaf to paint I’d paint a Leaf by Niggle It wouldn’t be a sketchy scrawl It wouldn’t be a squiggle But with veins and pores and chlorophyl A stem and ribs and branch It would have a…

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If you go down to the woods today

This afternoon was the first really dry day with reasonable light we’d had for ages, so I put the camera and a sketchbook in my bag then went for a wander in the woods. I spent quite some time photographing leaves to use as reference for paintings/drawings then started sketching. From the (far too many) photographs which I took down in the woods it wasn’t a leaf which I liked on the screen back at home, it was one of a patch of light on a mossy branch, almost a…

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Still Waiting

Some time ago Eden District Council sent out various bits of literature announcing their ‘Bag and Box Scheme’, part of this literature was a calendar detailing when they’d be collecting the items we’d left out for recycling. The first collection date for our property was listed as the 10th July 2012, unfortunately they didn’t manage to get the bags and box dropped off in time for this collection date so we carried on with our usual recycling and sent a message asking when the bags and box would be delivered.…

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