Although we are still having very wintry weather, the flowers and deciduous trees are all bursting out in spring flower and leaf. This tree below is a wonderful oak tree that spreads for meters on either side of the huge old trunk. The branches run parallel to the ground for a long way and the local children delight in bouncing up and down on them imagining that they are riding a horse no doubt. Our children did it and now our grandchildren are doing it too.
We are all so used to seeing everything in colour these days, especially our photos. A photographic group that I belong to decided that this month's topic would be flowers in black and white.
Taking the dog for a walk in the park this afternoon I found these very beautifully drawn and coloured flowers on the footpath beside the carpark. They are all uniform in size so I assume that the artist used a stencil and coloured them in with waterproof chalk or crayons.
Now that I have carved six or so new moth stamps it's time to start using them on some of the gelatin printed pages of my insect and bird book. I have lots of previously carved beetle stamps, but I think that they're all too large for this small book. I also have some dragonfly stamps that I carved for a previous project but most of them are too large as well unfortunately. I can see that I have a lot more stamp carving ahead of me! It's a very good thing to be occupied with, in this our 6th lock down designed to slow the spread of the Corona virus.
