Jan 20 Stone
In the cold of the north and the warmth of the west, the gulf stream allows palm trees to flourish in summer. At this time of year their dead skirts of leaves droop decorously downwards, listless dun-coloured and tattered.
Yet, look up: the palm crowns battle darkly green against the South Westerly and protect a few lighter green leaves that peer, almost shly, from deep within the tree top. A warm winter results in signs of early spring.
Look down: the shoots of daffodils are cutting, lance-like, through the grass.
Jan 21 Stone
Watercolour wash blends seamlessly, unbidden with whatever comes next; just like this one moment blends into the next hour into the next day. Painting in the specifics turns a background into a picture, just as memory writes the remembered detailed portrait of today.
Jan 22 Stone
A rabbit with reddish fur at the back of its head, a white feather in the wing of a blackbird and a robin, too fluffy and pale breasted to be fully grown - each of these make me curious for answers I may never find, make me consider the value of the usual and the unusual and most of all make me aware of how even the most ordinary of environments is full of ever changing detail.
And those Questions:
Wild grey, a rabbit met an escaped pet
She was seduced by his russet fur?
The boy blackbird bullied in the nest?
Or was the white feather a badge of status?
A warm winter and a fledgling robin
Connected?
Early nesting is possible
But this early?
Any answers or more questions could all be enlightening.
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