Ripening fruit
These beautiful fruits, with their bracts (a modified leaf) come from lime trees. I have seen many lying on the ground, and wondered...
Lymm Yarnbomb
A new project for Lymm is a Christmas tree, covered in crochet squares. A Facebook (Lymm Yarnbomb) group currently has 116 members. Any...
Sycamore
Some welcome rain is bringing out powerful woodland smells and making the leaves shine. These sycamore seeds, with their distinctive...
Seedheads
Now that the white lacey flowers have gone, the seed pods form their own beautiful pattern on thick stems of cow parsley. I have poppy...
Cork Christmas decorations
Seven people met at the Hub today, and painted coats and faces on the guards. and white and orange markings on the king penguins. The...
Astrantia
I think these white flowers, growing in a neighbour's garden, are a species of astrantia, named after the Latin for"star." Sketched in...
Sarah Supina
Artist Sarah Supina grew up in Massachusetts, spending hours of unstructured time with her frineds in the neighbouring woods. She creates...
Shells
I found three shells in my pocket today - a whelk, cockle shell and a limpet picked up from the shore at Inveraray - and spent a few...
African patterns
My next workshop at a care home follows the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, which aims to raise awareness of them...
Painting flowers and leaves
My starting point for this painting was a photograph of cow parsley., taken in the meadow near my house. I have taken several photos of...