It rained here , and stormed . Times liek these i miss Swiss balconies . English doors and windows were not designed to be opened in a downpour . We got that wrong because when it storms the air smells delicious ! The Swiss overhanging roof is a wonderful invention ,. it also means you can dry your washing in the rain :-)
This is a pastel sketch of a photo by Jessica Burnett , thanks Jess !
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Friday, 4 June 2010
beach day ,pastels and driftwood
This afternoon we wandered down to the beach . We looked for fossilised sharks teeth , millions of years old , we dug for baryte crystals in the cliffs .
I did some sketches in soft pastel
My best driftwood find . i found lots of smaller bits too that im thinking up plans for , its so light ! This piece has silky silver branches , i love it .
My new Clematis flower with my driftwood
my tomatoes and my grapevine . these are next to the new lawn . we have lots of bunches of grapes coming on the vine . The other tomatoes got scoffed by slugs , these ones surrounded by gravel are fine . i need to plant up some more tomorrow .
This butterfly went and laid eggs on my olive bush after this , i hope we get a new generation of them , ill sacrifice my olive bush handsomeness for munched leaves and more of these guys , they are deep blue inside their wings .
Last thing in the evening , the scent of cloves and vanilla on the balcony
Thursday, 3 June 2010
umm , ok its been ages.
Ive just been living life I guess and not blogging . Totally lost track of where i was so im just going to start from now and not try to catch up , because i cant ! . Today we went to a country park to let the monsters loose for a while . As soon as we opened the car door they escaped .
There were wild animals in the grass
doing strange things
The flowers were beautiful . There were lots .
After the country park we went home for a BBQ
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BBQ,
country park
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