Late summer walk...


...or is it early autumn? No matter. It's that transition phase.


Do you fancy a walk? Come for a gentle ramble with me and him.


I like to walk around my neighbourhood and village, every day if time allows. I love just looking.

 

  

 I had intended to take pictures of hay bales - the rolled up type, because I love how they look. 


They're such an unnatural shape. Like alien life-forms, or as if some large hand had just rolled them there.

 

Inevitably we got side tracked by other stuff too.


 

I love looking at wild stuff randomly growing. I like looking at the textural mass of tangle - I see it as a whole...

  

 
...and the individuals that make up the tangle. Both are inspirational to me.

I wonder if we would find the nettles above prettier if they didn't sting, and the umbel shaped things less attractive if they did?



 



More aliens have been busy here...


I've been thinking a lot about 'inspiration' lately, in part because I'm often asked what inspires me in my work. Perhaps some more on this another time.

How do you define inspiration?




 

  

  

  

 

 What a perfect fluffy ball!




Fascinating textural teazle! :)

Nearly home.


 

Love this amazing green.

Today: It was very hot on this day above, and in the few days since the weather has changed to much cooler, most of the hay bales have been taken away for storage and the hedgerows have been trimmed. I'm trying to feel rational about this, but admit to a bit of sadness. With the change of light and the foliage cut everything looks very different and pre-winter. I don't feel ready for jumpers yet! (Or for sewing with the lights on.)

Some more real weddings pics to come soon :)






Comments

  1. Eleni14 September 2012 at 17:15

    Hi, thanks for dropping by! It seems we have a lot in common - I'm living in bath and am about to start training as a counsellor, too!

    Looks like you live in a beautiful part of the world. Winter saddens me too, but autumn is just so gorgeous, I fall for it every year :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Rachel Lamb14 September 2012 at 18:49

    Hello Eleni, thanks for your comment! Bath is lovely - you can reflect on the mind, while absorbing beautiful architecture! :)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Thanks so much for your comment.

Popular posts from this blog

Not drowning, but waving...

Image
OK, I was recently reading one of my favourite blogs The Coffee Lady and she used a great excuse for not posting regularly and referred to her last post of a few weeks back as 'just then'. Her excuse was that time travels faster as you age, to which I thought, how true is that? And decided to borrow that same excuse for myself! So in my last post 'just then' what was I on about? Showing you Hannah's winter wedding I think. Well quite a lot has happened since then, wedding work and otherwise. The thing with blogging is choosing what to share and what not to share. I'm sure many people like to read only promotional stuff or choose to write only 'happy' stuff, and that must be wonderful if it works for you, but I find that style paralysing for many reasons, not least because when one is a creative type, (I prefer the word 'bohemian' at present, but more on that another time! ;)) one is influenced and motivated by everything around one, a
Read more

Fasten your seatbelts...

Image
A few posts back I showed you some pics of Jo - one of my summer brides and her dress as it was being made. I want to quickly revisit Jo and show you some more of her pictures, purely because they make me smile - she looks so relaxed and happy *sigh* :o) Before I forget, all the following pictures are courtesy of Kerpixel . Here she is walking towards the ceremony with her Dad... These next set of pictures are what I call the 'swishing series'! All systems ready... Preparing for take-off... We have lift off! Circling... And rest... A close up of the back detail  The happy couple! I will visit this wedding one more time with some cute bridesmaid shots, but I'll save those for another day.
Read more

Handsewing

Image
The way I work often involves lots of hand sewing, and this bespoke wedding dress was no exception. I listened to the whole of The Private Patient by P.D. James while working on attaching the lace motifs to this dress this week - that's a reasonably long story. It was quite satisfying because both the sewing and the story finished within minutes of each other! It looks lovely and is virtually finished for the final fitting next week. I'll be able to show and tell more at a later date. :-)
Read more