I did lots of drawing all yesterday afternoon - doing line drawings of dandelions leaves i've collected from around the site. It was a sunny, windy afternoon with cloud shadows skidding across the landscape.
Today is different - grey sky with some drizzle, a cooler, stiff breeze whipping in from the coast.
I've just had a great meeting with Roger Lang who, until recently, had his CLEO* office here at Balerigg House. He knows the site pretty well and we chatted about dandelions - he told me of a poem he knows about pulling up dandelions - i'm going to try and look it up then i'll put it on the blog.
I'm now going out to collect more specimens to finish the drawing work - a concertina book with a different drawing per page - i've done 20 odd so far and need to do about 60 in total.
*Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/239444
ReplyDeletethis maybe?
Sounds fab - have joined the bee club and all the stuff came today - we now have a wonderful selection of bee badges.
ReplyDeleteI bought a book for 50p from a charity shop called A Feast Of Flowers. It's a Reader's Digest book and is beautiful. It's all about bees and has a dandelion thrown in as well as many other lovely wild flowers. Well worth the 50pence.
Enjoy the office - do you feel 'not worthy!'?
Steph