Farmlife and Bridges

HELLOooooooooo!

Long time no see.

Though some of you have been kindly stopping by to check up on me.

And I appreciate that, thank you.

It's difficult to get going once you have a break.

But I've had these photos ready for a few days now

just waiting for me to find some words to go with them.

So what have I been up to on my unplanned blog break?

Well I have been working with hexagons.

Elongated hexagons.

An idea I saw a couple of years ago in a magazine

but only now am I following it up,

 I was able to buy the necessary template on my last visit to the UK.

I have to work from a template to make my pieces accurate.

I'm afraid everytime I try to draw a shape accurately,

it's never good enough.

I find these quite time consuming and more fiddly than the regular hexagons.

But I love the effect,

when pieced together.

What else has been happening?

Well flowers in the gardens seem to be blooming generally.

The flowers pictured here are taken in my sister's garden.
And from a garden we visited last weekend.
Yes I am on another visit to the UK!

Unusually,

we have had some lovely weather in Cumbria

since I arrived over a week ago.

My sister's garden is full of birds.

I enjoyed listening to this Blackbird singing his heart out one afternoon

as I sat reading my book below.

This little fellow came to join me for a while.

Last Sunday morning started off sunny and warm.

So I set off with my camera

for a walk along the river.

The county show is coming up in July.

Both my sister and I have been looking at the categories for entering

exhibits.

We both thought we might have a go at entering some photos.

One of the categories is 'Farmlife'.

Another is 'bridges'.

So both of us have been clicking away

trying our best to get some interesting shots.

We must have taken hundreds of photos

trying to capture the right one.

We're still looking.

But it's enjoyable.

And I'll be back with some more photos soon.