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| Taken on a bleak day, the grey of the paving stone says it all. But Bowles Purple flowers gently all through the summer |
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| Comfortable but no 'puppy eyes' for the moment, no wonder I call her a little trollop;) |
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| I picked these this morning in the sunshine behind is the dried hydrangeas. |
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| The Deluge, by Winifred Knight. To me it represents the state of England at the moment |
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| I choose this photo for calmness. |
A lovely video, only 2 minutes, of a great murmuration of starlings beset by a falcon, the music and birds blend beautifully.
https://vimeo.com/195138825?ref=fb-share&1
I love E A Bowles - I had her in my garden for years and she is so easy to propagate. Agree about the calmness of that photograph.
ReplyDeleteIt is a very easy perennial wallflower to grow, and seems happy in that shady spot.
DeleteLove that last photo for calmness. The textures of the wood are glorious.
ReplyDeleteIt is apparently made from the Japanese Zelkova tree according to Paul's cousin. Laquered red and incredibly smooth.
DeleteThe little bronze on the left is repro Chinese Tang Period funerary item (bronze with gold highlights). Not sure what the zelcova bowl was used for. Could have been for making 'mochi'. Mochi is made from pounding cooked rice into a sticky mass which can then be grilled or used as a kind of dumpling. The Japanese don't see 'a man in the moon' but a hare pounding rice in a bowl to make mochi.
ReplyDeleteThe little thing on the right of the bowl is a Buddhist temple tile. Next to that is a vase, thrown some forty years ago, by an American friend who studied Bizenyaki in Japan. He went on to set up the first Bizen climbing kiln in America situated in a secluded wood in upstate NY (where he still works).
I knew all that of course sweetheart ;) though how kilns climb leaves a lot to the imagination.....
DeleteI saw that video of the starlings---someone sent it to me, but nowhere did the email say who sent it! Nice surprise though.
ReplyDeleteThey made lovely patterns as they grouped and then fell away from the falcon. That is the trouble of the internet - anonymity but it was probably one of your friends...
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