Walk 7 - just a little walk

a little walk

from home along the riverbank

chocolate brown water

fast flowing and higher than normal (for the time year)

muddy underfoot

collecting yellow flowers;

buttercup

oil seed rape

yellow flag iris

and others

bundled into silk

along the river

collected reflections

an underwater world

light and shade

down to the waters edge

foaming water

evening light and soothing, lapping water

falling away

lightness

air

on my skin

collecting yellowed ivy leaves on my way home

Walk 6

From Prestwood to Denner Hill in the rain.

Down country lanes

The sound of a cuckoo

Green leaves

White flowers

Making hasty bundles in the wet

Soaked through

Walk 5

A river walk

from home along the river Aire and meandering

birds darting overhead and into the riverbank

beautiful sound of birdsong

bright sunlight catching the water

lush green

butterflies

silk soaked in the orange spring

wrapped with plants from the woods there

beech leaves

bluebells

bracken

ivy & ramsons

not expecting any marks but a pleasing bundle

everything here 'greened'

last of the bluebells

a new path by the walled walk

a way down to the river

a shiny green beetle

sitting with my boots in the river

connections between land and water *** to be explored

fluidity

up to the woods

playing with(in) shadows

painting with light

past the castle and down the hill

homeward

Decisions

Trying to make decisions about my method for this project. Should I make while ideas are still fresh or wait til colours have developed and memory chrystalised?

Remembering a recent BBC Horizon program about how we make decisions... on balance I will probably make my decisions on instinct anyway and just spend ages trying to rationalise it. 

Just do what feels right.

Staining, stitches and lemon slices to die for

The highlight of today was most definitely the lemon slices John made for our workshop, from a recipe from this book. But besides that I have enjoyed the company of Ruth, Helen, Carole, Sally and Kathryn at the studio for the Paper Textiles workshop. You can see some of out work here:

Keeping hold of Autumn

Precious time,

slipping through my fingers

a few moments stolen to mark the time

cloth, paper, leaves

More from the garden

beetroot

mahonia

sage

onion

rhubarb

parsley

basil

Long forgotten bundles

A couple of little things that have been waiting patiently for opening...

... and this stone retains a memory of a leaf placed many months ago.

Trial & error

Today I peaked at a bundle of cloth (top) I wrapped up a while ago. I was slightly disappointed, so I decided to tie it up again and be a bit more patient.

Riverside marks

Tales from the riverbank

Walking, looking and making...