songs of light

reason 755 why saturday is my favourite day . . .

I've been lying in the grass again. What else is there to do on a warm saturday afternoon?

Make a wish  . . .

gratitude and marriage proposals

I am grateful for blue hills and yellow fields, guardian angels and river rocks, poetry and skeleton leaves, mossy twigs and seed pods, and a four year old boy giving me flowers and asking me to marry him . . .

What are you grateful for? 

fallen

 

I found this beautiful hawk at the top of our road. Sadly he had been hit by a car. My dear friend Bec moved him gently onto the grass and we admired his glorious feathers. Such lovely shades of brown, charcoal, white and rust. I wonder where his favourite tree stands, it will be missing him tonight.

quote tree

 

I made a little quote tree a while ago. Just a lovely little mossy branch with some of my favourite quotes or words to remind me of what I'm trying to learn in my life. I was looking at it the other day and suddenly realised it would be a great home for my birds nest and some of the little paper birds I had left over from making my mobile. So now all these lovely bits of nature and words and paper are happily living together, and I delight in them whenever I walk past.

 

 

We've had such strange weather lately. A couple of days ago it snowed and covered all the hills again although it's only a month till summer starts. I don't mind, it always looks so beautiful when the early morning light turns the snow dusky shades of pink.

 

I'm starting to get some canvas' finished too which is making me happy. Hope you are having a lovely weekend wherever you are in the world :)


 

works in progress

I have been busy printing the last few days.

Words and images, my two favourite things.

The words look kind of pink here but they're actually red.

 

After all that hard work, I lay in the grass and admired everything; the sunshine, the blades of grass, the hills turning their afternoon shade of blue.

Even the weeds were beautiful. Sigh.

* A big thank you to the love of my life, who just happens to be an IT genius, for fixing the internet problem we had which means I can finally blog from home. Yay!

late frost

Isn't frost the loveliest thing?

Something about black and white pictures of frost thrills me. I love the contrast and I love how the frost highlights all the little details in plants, leaves, fences etc. There can't be too many frosts left before summer starts and I'll kind of miss them.

leaf printing

I have been wondering lately if my screen printing ink could be used for making leaf prints. So I had a little try.

 

 

 

I have these two prints sitting on an old wooden ladder in my lounge room.

This was such a fun thing to try, and as always with creative pursuits it was kind of meditative too. Now if only I could sew, I could whip up some cushions!

I've been trying to get some photos of birds on power lines to make into a screen print, but bless them they always seem to fly away when they see me coming. I tried so hard one night but this was the best I could do! One little bird, watching the sun go down alone.

One golden evening, overcome with the quality of the light,

I stopped the car to tip toe reverently amongst the grasses by the side of the road.

A stream floated gently by the edges of the grass, and two ducks slowly wandered by.

I was so glad I stopped.