Bellingham, Northumberland. Changeable weather, windy and showers, 6C Walking up the sheltered river valley to the waterfall on a damp Wednesday morning. The old, moss enrobed trees were a joy after driving to Bellingham over exposed moorland. Such vivid shades of green and yellow. The river was running high after heavy rainfalls, rushing down theContinue reading “Hareshaw Linn”
Category Archives: nature writing
Walking North
One of those walks where I carried my sketchbook but didn’t actually do any drawing. We were walking with friends so I’ll use that as my excuse! The textures of driftwood and petrified tree trunks caught my eye, as did this stone doing a very good impression of a jawbone. I did pick up someContinue reading “Walking North”
Onwards
A slow start to 2021, cold dark mornings occasionally enlivened with a magic dusting of frost, or snow. There are applications that I need to write and projects that I need to plan but there is also a need to organise family life as we start another term of home schooling and zoom meetings. WeContinue reading “Onwards”
Hideout in the hedgerow
Developing a piece of work is a slow process, an idea percolates, sketches are drawn and samples made – although in my case the samples often end up being included in the finished piece – not so great for the sketchbook but it does advance the making process! The idea for this hare has beenContinue reading “Hideout in the hedgerow”
Snow on Saturday
Leftover snow starkly outlining the texture of ploughed fields whilst overhead cirrus clouds till the sky in mimicry of those fields. A Magpie, perched on the highest twig of a leafless blackthorn. An avian exclamation mark, it punctuates the pause between land and sky. My reading is beginning to have an impact on my writing;Continue reading “Snow on Saturday”
Donna Cheshire Textiles 