The Rain & Sun Which Formed a Coloured Bow

I was very lucky today to see three perfect rainbows.  I went out with my stills camera & movie camera to film & photo the huge finch flocks & golden plover flocks which are currently in the daytime taking advantage of the barren fields, as they do every winter.  Luckily there was a break in the clouds & taking these photos I managed to stay dry, but no more then a mile away from me some we're getting extremely wet!

The white building is the cottage, now sadly empty, hoping to rent it out as holiday lets

I've never seen a rainbow fall straight down over the cottage roof!

And with a bit of editing trickery to bring out the second rainbow on the right of the first:

See the wet weather is not all that bad........ Oooo did I type that out loud? ;-)

Fly with me to the moon

Or when you can see it, as Devon is just a tad cloudy, windy & wet, but last night the moon said hello & I replied back with the click of my camera:

 

Totally Confused

I've gone green!  Plus just updated the new edit feature.  Where am I?  Who am I?  Why am I back to blogger?  Good question.  I've been forced here, forced away from a place I love by dictatorship, I hope that ship sinks in a rough tide!

But am I happy to be back?  I'll tell you later.

Am I happy anyway?  I'll tell you later.

Do I want to be happy?  Of course, everyone wants to be happy.

Instead of the usual blah blah news, here's an interview I've just conducted with myself:

Hello & welcome back to blogger Miss Clark, tell me, why did you decide to stop posting here?

Life just got in the way, moving house was one of them, it was a hard road & blogger & me just didn't find the time for each other.

Then why do you suddenly have more time for blogger now?

It's got to the point where I need to type out my rants, something I can't seem to do without being told off elsewhere, I have a role to play elsewhere where I cannot be human, I'm conditioned to rule & govern like a robot, not as a human being with feelings & emotions.

Could you tell us what this place is?

No I'm afraid not, would dearly love to though, but you never know 'who' would be reading this!

Quite so

Yep

How's the artist life?

Oh you know, doesn't move very quickly, especially now I'm favouring oil paint over the rest, takes so long to dry, then I run out of drying space & have to sit idle.  I've had a few exhibitions, sold a few from there & my website, haven't broken into main stream yet though, still lack the confidence even though I receive raving reviews from strangers - one day!

And I see from your date of birth you recently turned 30, how does that feel?

I'm not 30, how dare you say such a thing!  I didn't have a Birthday this year! ;0)  I feel no different!

Are you missing London?

Yes & no, I worry that if I were to think about it in great detail then yes, I would miss it terribly, so I stop myself from remembering places, remembering people & just remembering memories.  Devon is a very beautiful part of the world, & I think I'm very lucky to have experienced city life & now to be experiencing country life, it gives one a lot more wisdom!

Are you still taking lots oh photographs?

Oh yes, still clicker happy, I shall post some later on.  I still have plans to sell prints, again, one day!
 


Finally, are you now here to stay on blogger?

For the moment, yes I am, even if people don't read what I say, I find it very helpful & relaxing to get my jumbled feelings down into this little white box, once they've left my fingers, I feel a great weight has left me, it's hard to explain, it's great therapy!

One small thing, are you going to continue at the other place?

The jury is out on that one.

Thank you for your time & honest replies.

My pleasure, what's the time?  Almost time for drink o'clock!

Swoon

To be overwhelmed by ecstatic joy.

There's not enough of that in life. And to me that is the word which should be used more often.

Recently I started a campaign to get this word 'used' & I channeled my first efforts direct to Chris Packham who is currently presenting AutumnWatch on BBC2, Friday nights at 8:30pm. I follow him on Twitter, just like 1,896 other people & a few of us on there asked him direct to use the word *Swoon* on Autumnwatch * he did - THREE times, there was almost a 4th. Behold the power of the *Swoon*.

Note: Hello again, it's been a while, Feb 09, oh deary me! I'm very impressed with myself that I've been able to remember how to do links!

SNOW!!!!!!

Blackbird in the snow!

Yes that's right - that white stuff that Devon never gets - as in ever! At first it was a dusting & I was jumping up & down saying it was no fair but then come midday there was a blizzard! LOL And the snow is still there!

So many finches today - all starving!

Had to get a Robin in the snow!

It's been very busy today!

Song thrush - rather tame!

Little & large - Goldfinch & Robin

My snow cat, but it's ear melted!

Cottage around 3pm

Cottage around 5pm!

Amazing skies against the snow!

The Old Smithy - the house we 'should' have moved into by now!

Beech trees in the snow - lovely!

My beloved Scots Pine!

Me!

My friend's farm

My dad!

Sorry I haven't been posting much - so busy elsewhere all the time - but had to post these photos! :)

Hot & Cold & Good News

Hot - hmmm - sunset hot!!!!











Cold - hmmm -frost cold! The lovely intricate patterns on my car yesterday morning:












Good news? I'll be 'Home' for Christmas!

Emy xxx

Being Overtaken . . .

By rats & starlings!

Can you count the rats in the feeder?

Starling in full voice!

Wet weather!

Male pheasant sunning himself in the hedge

Goldfinches still holding their own against the starlings!



And a moth - I seem to have mislaid my moth book so have no idea!

What a Difference a Day Makes!

Full sun & blue sky yesterday - after days upon days of heavy unrelenting cloud & drizzle, we get a glorious November sunny day! (ok today was back to the drizzle - but least us folk in Devon have seen the beauty of blue sky & bright sunshine!)



Blue skies galore!

See my shadow?

Ok we have a REALLY serious rat problem now - they're all over the garden & all over & under the bird feeders - they're such rascals too & are getting away with blue murder!

Though Mummy blackbird didn't seem too fussed about it!

Sparrow - unfortunately in shadow - but love how his underside lit up in the sun!

Glowing feet & look at those claws! Was he a cat in his previous life? lol

Sparrow camera shy - but lovely against the vivid blue sky

Buzzard - so hard to photograph - he/she was far away so not a very clear shot! :(

Blue tit enjoying the last rays of the golden sunshine of the day

Fieldfare from a great distance, they're very timid birds, so quite hard to get close to

Golden plovers demonstrating why they've been given that name! Catching the sunlight

Lovely golden sunshine which ran shadows across the land towards a glowing yellow field:

Some colour in the hedgerows - rose hips

Gorse - remember, when the gorse is in season, so is kissing!

Dock leaves in the evening sunshine & oak leaves lit up too

On my walk in the field where I saw a big flock of fieldfares & redwings, plus golden plovers

The last leaves on the oak trees in the woods - amazing how they've disappeared so fast!

Beginnings of yesterdays sunset

Same sunset - taken in dusk!

End to a perfect day really! :) x

The Sky was on Fire!

Sunset from last night:



















Lovely blue skied day today but very very cold - I can't enjoy is it as I need to get back to work in the studio - oh oh oh woe is me . . . :( x

Pressure, pressure, under so much pressure

I have 2 exhibition deadlines looming!

One is looming closer then the other - as in this coming Saturday. It's some Open North Devon Art event where 10 artists influenced by North Devon are chosen out of a panel of art type people for an exhibition at the Barnstable museum & they're looking for new artists, right up my street or down my lane, BUT oh it's so hard - I need 4 cracking paintings - just isn't happening!

The second is the New Work New Year show at Broomhill - where my North Devon Arts experience all started & really hasn't got me very far, but I'll keep plodding along & that's slightly better, the deadline for that is 6th December - I need 8 paintings for both shows combined - God 8, you know I hadn't counted them, god, that's worse - 8 cracking paintings!

So today I discovered I actually have no room, I have the total of around 15 canvases on the go - some I start then put away & come back to, others I acrylic over first & then wait until they've dried, others I give a thin layer of oil & let that dry over night so I can apply a second. Yes, all organised, all thought out. Hmmm - ME ORGANISED? You have the wrong person surely!!!!

I have actually run out of room! I lean finished paintings against everything - one I leaned against the wall & the second one I started off then I splattered paint over the first finished one *rolls eyes* I had nowhere to stand my jar of white spirit so I placed it on top of the third step of my small ladder, yep, I spilled it, it went up the wall & over a painting & to top it up I tripped over my floor covering & one of my paintings now as a print of my hand right in the middle! I get totally covered in paint usually, it's over my face, it's in my hair, over my hands & I wipe off the residue of oil paint on my brush on my trousered thigh (yep painting clothes) & when I come to take them off after a day of studio I find the paint has gone right through onto my legs & I look like I have a huge bruises - which I do ironically anyway as I'm so clumsy!

So I'm annoyed, frustrated, agitated, resemble a paint pot, stressed, under pressure, stiff, achy & now ranting on my blog!!!

Och well as Tucker would say, least there was a stunning red sunset tonight - red sky at night, shepherds delight???? PLEASE!!!!!! As the weather has been appalling!!!!

Emy x

Autumn Sunsets

one cold sunset during the week - there was no colour - just gold & bleakness!

This was on the same night I went deer stalking! The sky turned pink!

This was Friday nights sunset - rather sublime & again everything glowed pink

Incredibly windy today & a bit of sun here & there between the hail storms, so there might be a chance of a sunset tonight who knows - I'm just off out to take a few more photos of Ratty & family! x