Just back from Florence

This view is the reward you get for climbing the 463 steps to the top of the Duomo!




Food market - full of wonderful, delicious sights and smells. I wanted to stay by the fresh vegetables and salad stall just to inhale the wonderful freshness of it all but was dragged away by my companion who said that she wasn't sure about Italian laws on loitering with intent - even if the intent were to enjoy!



This photo illustrates one of the things I love so much about Florence...small corners like this which reveal tranquil, magical scenes......



.....glorious incongruity....



.....the characters....



.....the glamour...



...the magic. Can't wait to return!

God is in.....

Have just discovered Beth Nielsen Chapman's beautiful CD 'Prism'. The first track is a called 'God Is In' (Goddess In)......which is really a sung list of all the things that the writers believe God is in.....here is a short photographic list based on 'God is in'....

So fed up with January

Fed up with the weather, the constant rain, the dark mornings and dark afternoons - but just look at the sky....I think it comes in the category '...every cloud has a silver lining...' or in this case 'golden!'

just messing about.....

Can't resist playing with images.....
The first image is of a derelict building in the Potteries. I think that it has a wonderful atmospheric quality about it. I want to create a fabric panel basd on this sometime.

The second image is a beautiful dry stone wall in Derbyshire captured at sunset.

The last image was taken on a walk in the hills in Cheshire on the borders of Derbyshire.

The ink is black, the page is white...........

What a fabulous image....a road inviting us to walk round the next corner and what will we find?




Somewhere to rest and enjoy the view....

Faces of Grief

Faces of Grief

unable to sleep

I woke in the early hours of this morning and, unable to get back to sleep, I switched on the radio and listened to the World Service. There happened to be a programme about the blogs of soldiers serving in Iraq. The presenter urged listeners to click onto these blogs....I did so and came accross 'faces of grief'. As I write this my face is still wet with the tears which I shed whilst reluctantly scrolling down the blog. The images are shocking. I feel entirely helpless. I know that the answer to this hell on earth is not as simple as 'please put a stop to it all now'. If you happen to read my blog I urge you to look at 'faces of grief'.