On our usual dog walk there is a hedgerow where, tangled amongst the weeds and grasses, blackberry bushes grow. Over the past couple of weeks these have been continuously ripening from green to red to a delicious juicy purple. As a child I remember scrambling, large tupperware in hand, into brambles to pick for my mother's delicious apple and blackberry pies and bramble...
A Friyay in watercolours that continues with the sunflower theme as it has been another hot and sunny day - hurrah! Have a fantastic Bank Holiday Weekend! ...
What's not to love about Scotney Castle? Stories of Elizabethan smugglers, murders and priest holes combined with the oh so romantic charm of an old moated ruin at the bottom of a beautiful garden. I discovered that 'Yanks' with Richard Gere was filmed there and Margaret Thatcher rented a flat from the mid 70s, using it as a bolt hole from Westminster. Leaving...
August has been full of sunshine making me think of sunflowers so I pulled out the watercolours and had a go at painting one. In Greek mythology I think it was Clytie who passionately loved Helios. She would stand on the earth watching him move across the sky. Her love was unrequited and standing for so long with her eyes fixed upon him,...
