Beach-Combing Magpie

Far from the beach, but still surrounded by treasure of all kinds just ready to be found, looked at, gloated over, gleaned and swiped or simply created! Here are my latest finds....

Friday, March 31, 2023

A Gentle Escape...

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As I wandered around the Tate Britain a few weeks past, I felt as if I were again encountering and reconnecting with what had once been t...

Crochet Comfort..

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Although I seem to have achieved very little this month, I have managed to make a start on a new crochet blanket which was initially an en...

Monday, March 27, 2023

Nocturnal Blossom, Branches and Buds...

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I thought March would be a month of calm but that has not been the case and all the positives of the end of February fizzled away... As al...

Monday, February 27, 2023

Calm away from the Cold...

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The desire to hibernate has got the better of me this year, and I cannot wait to get back to the warmth and calm of home - or my favourite...

Butterflies and Beauty from your Fingertips...

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Walking home last night, the fading light behind the strangely pollarded trees outlined the spidery boughs with the silhouettes of their s...

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Tightrope Tales from Brum and Beyond....

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In 1992 the statue of a famous character was erected on the busy Ladywood ring road in Birmingham, England. Having passed by this figure ...

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

A Boar's Maw...

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One curious image that I had kept of a piece of art seen in my childhood, but retained only as an unidentified haze in my mind, finally t...

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