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| Macro of the pink tulip centre |
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| VERY macro on the pistil |
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| The tulips were collapsing after giving us several days of lovely colour |
Spring is THINKING about us. WE are thinking of spring- or I am. Yes, we have had NO winter to speak of here in Canada's sunny south. It has been a dreary , snowless time and many of us are chomping at the bit for sunshine- and TULIPS!!
I actually BOUGHT some cut tulips and took photos of them, so desperate was I for some sign of life. If it had been snowy outside, I think I would not have felt this way but in this sort of never never land- pale grey green grass, bare branches, gritty roads and pale faces, I NEED GREEN! I NEED COLOUR!
I'm having trouble with my blog. I think it is cross with me for ignoring it for so long in favour of Flickr! It doesn't want to let me type. Ah, well, I shall spend more time here and am very close to starting some fibre art works so will have that to post soon. I have been keeping up with you good people out there in the Blogosphere and you are all so productive! Well done all!!
I HAVE been productive- VERY productive! I have almost worn the spots off my camera with shooting so many pictures!!! For my birthday, DH gave me half of Lightroom 6 ( I gave myself the other half) and I have been busily engaged in learning how to use it. VERY exciting, although I have barely scratched the surface. Learning such a programme is NOT conducive to carrying out one's normal, daily activities! Housework, entertaining, art--- all gone out the window- but I CAN edit a Raw photo now in LR6- at least basic editing!
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| Some of the crazy stuff I have been doing. The bottom of Granny's lovely old Huntley and Palmers Biscuit tin. Looks like a bunch of classic books bound together with a leather strap |
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| One of two artichokes I bought and photographed |
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| The inside of one of the artichokes- Love the patterns and colours |
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| All ready to be roasted with salt, oil and garlic- I did it but , despite my love of artichokes as Objets d'art- I do NOT love to eat them! Very costly compost! |
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| The Grindstone creek behind our house with about three inches of melting snow! |
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| Black Alder branch over the frozen creek |
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| Swirling water passing over a sunken block of icy snow. |
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| The Creek bank in various stages of freeze |
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| And sumac flowers |
This has been a fun hiatus and seemingly quite efficacious for my poor old hand. I hope that starting up again will not set me back! I will try to work in gently with as little scissor cutting as possible. Stay tuned!!
Happy New Year everyone. It will be good to be back! I am going to begin with my Gelli Pads and paint! Watch this space!!! I have a LOT of photo ideas now for little quilts :-)
Forgot it is Wednesday . I KNOW this is NOT needlework but thought I would post to the
needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com just to say hello again to everyone. Hope you are all well and "gainfully employed".
