Further adventures into the world of pencil drawing. …
My first serious drawing
I’m not sure there is not and ounce of natural artistic talent in my body, watching ‘Landscape artist of the year’ on Sky gave me the motivation to maybe give pencil drawing a go. …
A harrow is not just for harrowing!
Cutting the grass this year seems to have produced more than the expected amount of cuttings. If I had a bailer I think I would have got three large round bales of hay from just the Meadow, Garden and Wildlife Fields. All this has been dumped in a very large hole in the Wildlife field.
Flutterbyes
Photographing butterflies has always proved to be a problem. You creep up on the little buggers and just as you frame and focus, the bugger flies off. I’ve heard that some photographers catch their prey and then put them into a fridge. This is supposed to make them almost dormant and therefore they will just sit there waiting for your shot. Not sure I agree with this, so will have to continue the ‘sneak…
Now we’re inside.
Now the outside pointing on the dairy is finished, our attention turns to the inside. This is before we started removing most of the old soft concrete . and after about an hours de-pointing. A long way to go yet, but at least I can work inside now when it’s pissing down outside.
Walking the Policies
Up at semi Sparrows fart this morning to give the doggie a full walk around the Policies. Is that view gorgeous or what? When we have a ball Rubes is completely self contained – and by that I mean no lead or rope attached. Flowering Yarrow in now abundant….. ….as is Red Valerian. We also have a rare entry this year – Common Eyebright. There are only two clumps of this growing in the…