Simply a Moment

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Three Moments

Thursday 15th August 2013
2:15pm

Sitting in my car looking over the fields and across to the hills thinking “This is such a lovely place, I wonder what will be in the flower beds for me to photograph today”.
This used to be a fortnightly ritual, when I worked here that is.
It is six months since I was here.
I have been invited to the ‘café’ today because they miss me, of course, but more importantly one of ‘our’ volunteers is leaving today, she is moving out of the area and she asked if I could call in to say goodbye.
I am feeling nervous and apprehensive.

4:30pm
I had a really lovely afternoon; they made me feel so welcome. There were lots of hugs, how are you’s, kisses and compliments.
I had cake and coffee, talked and laughed, sympathised and suggested a couple of things to someone who asked for my advice.
I have flowers to take home and I have lots of pictures of the Rudbeckia looking so bright and cheerful in the flower beds.

5:15pm
Paul asked “how did it go? Are you OK? Were they pleased to see you?”
Ben asked me “How was it? Did you have cake? Did you bring any home?”

“It was lovely: afternoon and cake. I had a good time, I loved seeing them but I don’t want to do it anymore and no I didn’t bring any cake home”

I gave so much, I love them but I can’t carry their lives in my head and heart any more.
He said, “you don’t have to, you retired, stay home, do blogging, you love that.”

And so I do.

Thank you Alexa. I know I am on a blogging break but I really wanted to do this today, to remember a moment (or three) that was important to me. Your meme prompts me to do just that.

Rudbeckia

Taking a Break

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I’m taking the rest of August on a blogging break. Time for a bit of R&R.
I will pop by though for Alexa’s Simply a Moment on the 15th and our coffee and walk on the beach on 27th with Abi. I booked the table at the cafe on Knightstone Island for 3:00pm, hope that’s Ok for you? There is plenty of parking now that our town is littered with meters! or let me know if you want picking up from the station. 😉

Taking a break

I feel a bit like the little creature trying to pick it’s way through the tangle of Clematis seed head. My tangle is a pile of PHD’s (projects half done) and ideas for new projects….

Project 52

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52 Photos Project

Gallery 16 for Project 52 is Childhood Games and it has been chosen by Linda McGrath one of the participants on the project.

I really like the prompts for Project 52, they are a bit different and offer so much scope.

We used to love playing Scrabble as a family and as kids in the street. As we grew up many a game of it has been played over a few beers.
A word of warning though if you like a game of Scrabble. Don’t play with my brother-in-law. He is a terrible looser and was in the habit of making words up…
…”That’s not a word!!” We would all shout in unison.

gallery 16 Childhood games

…”you can’t have that it’s not joined up!!’

Gallery 16 games

Index Card A Day

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The last few days of this great challenge. I have thoroughly enjoyed the last 61 days of making art every day.
Here are my last few cards.

Stencils and Pencils
pencil stencil

Scraps
machine felted scraps
I collected a box of sewing bits, the tiny craps and the cotton left at the end of a sewing session which you would normally throw in the bin. I machine felted them onto a piece of muslin and cut a piece for this card.

Lint and Flowers
lint and flowers

I collected some lint from the tumble dryer. Over a few days I had some different colours and machine felted it onto some lightweight linen. I love the texture it produced, if a little dusty! It also amuses me greatly when I recall the face of my husband when I told him what it was! The flowers are hand felted.

Crossword ICAD
crossword icad

And as it is the last day of the project this is my only digital card. I had seen someone make a crossword of words but I can’t find the blog now, if it was your card let me know? but my words didn’t turn out to be a good shape for a crossword so I made the words fit together like this.

So my twenty words say thank you to Tammy at Daisy Yellow for a brilliant project, and thank you all for looking at my cards and saying such nice things.

Looking Up and Down

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…because it’s a great way to see things differently.

We came home over the Clifton Suspension Bridge and this time I walked across! It was a bit drizzly so the light wasn’t brilliant but I made some great Up & Down pictures considering I don’t like heights! Oh and the bridge moves!!

I loved these tall (Corsican, I think) pines that are on the Leigh Woods side of the bridge and wondered, if I was looking up at the pines
Look Upp

Could I look down and find some cones?
Looking Down

I played with the dodge & burn tool rather than put a texture on the sky as it was so washed out, I rather like the result.
I also have a couple of contenders for Rindas Scavenger Hunt.
Item 8 A Tower

The water tower on The Downs, Bristol
Water Tower

One of the Towers of the Suspension Bridge
Bridge Tower

Thank you Helena who’s brilliant idea it is to Look Up and Down every week throughout 2013