Monday, 26 June 2017

Flaming June

 Well, where did May and most of June go?  I have been here and I have been doing things but there seemed to be no time to blog so this is my mini round up and I cannot blog without talking about the heat. Whew! Scorchio! But what beautiful light it gave us in the early evenings........
 ....what glorious shadows in the unlikeliest of places
 ..... what tremendous moths it brought out into our nightly trap
 ... and what stunning colours it has produced in the garden
 Cosmos 'Dazzler'
 Lupin 'Thundercloud'
 Filipendula Venusta Rubra
.... and Geranium Sue Crug

I've had friends down to stay who have been working on their PhD's and foolishly thinking I could help them but I helped brainstorm a few ideas and they went home happy enough. I've also just returned from a weekend teaching folded book structures with a fabulous group of embroiderers in Cheshire. I took photos but they were awful so I cannot show some of the great things they produced. Sorry girls, if any of you are reading this.
I have a print I must get on with now for the lovely girls I am exchanging with in Australia. I am behind schedule but have started a collagraph plate today so it is happening. Once that is done I have no other commitments as such until September so I am firming up a summer project idea and will try to post some snippets as I go along. Given my current track record though..... we'll see!