Very thin on the ground. And it's not even as if I'm holding back on Christmas cards, I'll add one in here.
The first card is one of my Tyvek pieces - it was for a challenge to incorporate stitching, and I knew it would be easy enough to sew, even though I can't find my good thimble anywhere.
I think the second one will go as a Christmas card to C's friend in Maine who isn't really into Christmas. C saw a woodpecker when he was there early this month, and though he didn't come back with a photo to prove it, he did come back with a couple of the tree where he had seen it, complete with multitudes of holes.
The third one was a variation on the salt technique for a watercolour background, calling for colouring the salt first. I think I probably made both my watercolour paper and the salt too wet, because the piece wasn't ready to use the next day. It had been intended for a Christmas card but my green got totally subsumed by the colours in the salt, and it more said "sea" to me.
Assorted photos - the deer were the first morning it was cold enough for there to be a ground mist in the park. It was more visible on my side of the road, looking into the sun, but it was still worth stopping to take a shot of the deer. The rainbow is over Dublin. Thankfully there wasn't much rain that day, as I had about 22 miles to cycle each way, and really there was only a brief shower just as I was leaving my friend's house. A couple of weeks ago, on the other hand, we had amazing thunder and lightning and rain all one afternoon. I left the building in work thinking I didn't need my rain skirt, and I would just pack it so it would be accessible if I did. By the time I got to the bike sheds, the storm had started. The mass of tiny mushrooms was also in the park. At first as I cycled past I thought someone had dropped some kind of textured bag, so I stopped to look. I've never seen them clustered together so closely like that before. They turned darker brown over time - I was going to take another photo the day after C got back from Maine, but it turned out to be the day they mowed the verges, so they were all gone. The day before I'd been rushing home to get some bread made and hadn't wanted to take any time to stop. My mistake...
I will have some photos from the little seaside town up in the North where C is getting his dental implants. With no Covid restrictions this time I was able to accompany him when he went for his extractions, and I took some good photos but life is busy. And the booster shot seemed to knock me sideways, I took my first sick days from work since some time in 2019, and still feel pretty wiped out.
The header is some type of seed head, taken on a trip to Farmleigh last November.
