Floral tribute to RHS

Yesterday I made a further visit to RHS Hyde Hall in Essex, and it will probably be the last visit for some time as my life in the South of England is coming ever closer to a removal back to the Midlands. The two centre life I have lived over the past 14 years nevertheless remains a constant as I will be spending a great deal of time in Scotland. Hurrah!!

I hadn’t taken my working camera, so had to fall back on the companion phone camera simply because I had to capture the blooms I found there , and thought it might be interesting to show the photos and then the subsequent design that sprang from them. Sort of a Work in Progress thing.

So there you have it! If you want to see more of my work there are links on the home page of the blog. Lots of different styles , not just flowers!!!

 

I love how my life is still flowering in new directions – particularly as now we have the opportunity to spend more time in nature, and potter about in Scotland. Cannot wait to be back up there!!

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Confessions of a poet.

Confessions

Wanting to know all

I overlooked each particle

Containing the whole

Unknowable.

Intent on one great love, perfect,

Requited and for ever,

I missed love’s everywhere

Small presence, thousand-guised.

And lifelong have been reading

Book after book, searching

For wisdom, but bringing

Only my own understanding.

Forgive me, forgiver,

Whether you be infinite omniscient

Or some unnoticed other

My existence has hurt.

Being what I am

What could I do but wrong?

Yet love can bring

To heart healing

To chaos meaning.

Kathleen Raine

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The breath of the wind and Summer treasure.

Cottage Garden – Digital illustration Anne Corr.
Please do not use without permission.

Woke early and avoided most of the day’s heat by creating the above. Enjoy.

Waiting for the Sun

I love Japanese illustration, and this digital illustration borrows from that tradition, You can see the original in all its gorgeousness too.

I love Japanese illustration, and this digital illustration borrows from that tradition, You can see the original in all its gorgeousness too,Katsushiku Hokusai’s Iris et sauturelle