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"Spring Ritual" - painting by Meg Watson |
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The dancing daffodils are leaving us again for another year. Yellow trumpet heralds have already gone and the others are fast fading. |
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Flight of pigeons ....... and a winged cloud! |
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Wild primroses |
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Beautiful glowing Dandelion. Every year I keep a few plants in our garden for culinary purposes. The young chicory flavoured leaves, which are rich in vitamins and minerals, are a pleasant addition to Spring salads. |
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"Dandelion" - Paints,beads and stitching on calico |
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The Intruder - a neighbourhood cat creeps through our garden. While dogs sleep cats will play! |
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The life journey of a tree continues, washed up on an East Lothian beach .... The abstract patterns and markings interest me from an aesthetic viewpoint. Grafittied ..... |
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Rotted ........ |
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Sawn ..... |
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Attacked by beetles ...... |
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The trunk measures half a meter in diameter and three meters long ...... |
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Burnt ...... |
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The beetle holes were probably made by spruce beetles. Did this tree begin life further north in Scandinavia or Russia? |
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Pied Wagtail |
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Conifers at Dawyck Arboretum in the Scottish Borders ....... HERE |
