garden
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Backlit Crocuses
… or should it be “backlit croci”? The interweb seems to be divided on the correct plural of crocus. However, such grammatical issues are a mere side show to the main event here – which is that last week during seemingly continuous rainfall the sun actually made a brief appearance to light up the spring…
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Begijnhof
This peaceful courtyard is to be found in Bruges, a place I have visited, painted and drawn many times. This tranquil place originally housed a community of lay women called beguines, and still today it is home to a community of Benedictine nuns and other likeminded women. I’m not sure that my painting really captures…
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Lily
I saw this rather handsome plant in a local garden centre whilst looking for something else entirely, so naturally I bought the specimen and it is now trying to survive (and I hope thrive!) in my garden. It is a rather different shape to the lilies that I drew many years ago when I first…
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Primroses
The plants which grow best in my garden are those that are often labelled as weeds! I’m not sure whether primroses are normally classified by others in this way, but given how vigorously they self-seed and then grow in my lawn they seem to fit the bill. However, they have the advantage of being colourful…
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Summerhouse & Shelter
I have already commented on the bad weather we had during our recent visit to Ichi-Coo Park. Early that afternoon we experienced a really heavy downpour, so I took refuge in a summerhouse which was the driest place I could find, and started drawing on the only “waterproof” pad that I had – my iPad!…
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