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Tag Archives: Snowdrops

The First Day of Spring

Today is the first day of spring, at least meteorologically speaking, but, with a cool breeze this afternoon, the temperature here in the back garden is a wintry 45°F, 7°C. As a change from Apple Pencil and iPad in the comfort of my studio, I decide to spend an hour drawing in the garden. The […]

Posted byRichard1 February 20182 February 2018Posted inDrawing, GardenTags: SnowdropsLeave a comment on The First Day of Spring

Snowdrops

43ºF, 8ºC, 10.15 a.m.: In the back garden a robin is singing; a pair of magpies call raucously; a blackbird splutters in alarm and house sparrows chirp continuously from the hedges. A fragment of shrivelled crab apple drops on my sketchbook, then another. There’s a male blackbird seven feet above my head in the branches of […]

Posted byRichard22 February 201622 February 2016Posted inFlowers, GardenTags: blackbird, Crab Apple, SnowdropsLeave a comment on Snowdrops

Snowdrops by the Pond

10.30 a.m.: Snowdrops are at their freshest around the pond so I set up my pop-up tent and start a sketch in the gusting wind and passing showers. Before the afternoon rain sweeps in I roll up the tent into its dustbin lid-sized bag. I can never quite work out how such as large tent fits […]

Posted byRichard1 February 20161 February 2016Posted inPondTags: Pond, Pop-up Tent, SnowdropsLeave a comment on Snowdrops by the Pond

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