Yesterday was a lovely day, just as sunny but not quite so hot, so we went for a drive and ended up in Woodmansterne village where we saw this on the green:
Isn’t this amazing? Here are some closer views:
And around the other side there was:
And I presume this is the huge stump from which the tree was felled:
And then, when we got home, guess who was in our back garden again?
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Saturday 5th August 2006
Holly Lodge in historic Richmond Park is dedicated to people with special needs and the education and entertainment of people and children of all ages and abilities. My sister-in-law Gloria does a lot to help including helping to paint this wonderful mural! Someone has donated the contents of a Victorian Chemist shop to Holly Lodge and they are trying to raise money to build a suitable building to house it. Towards this end, brick shaped cards were issued to helpers and children to provide art work to support this. Gloria (very kindly!) passed hers on to me. What should I paint? Hmmm, Victorian Chemist..... health..... boy, it’s hot, I wish I was at the seaside..... I know! A Victorian bathing machine! and I can do it in ‘sepia’ which is both the right feel and neutral enough to be Project Spectrum-worthy.....
What do you think? A bit too whimsical or OK?
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This month is the last in the Project Spectrum, and I’ve really enjoyed being out with my camera and having my eye focused on a specific thing. The colours for this month’s Project Spectrum are black and white and the neutral colours, and I wonder if I can slip ‘bronze’ in here. These are a few statues that really appeal to me.
This a life size statue of Margot Fonteyn in Reigate, sculpted by Nathan David.
And this is John Gilpin in Epsom, sculpted by Tom Merrifield
And this is the Surrey Scholar in Guildford, by Allan Sly. (This was taken on a second trip into Guildford. The first time, we had ventured in, some bright spark had placed a cardboard box over his head.)
And this is my favourite, the famous Boy with a Dolphin on the Chelsea Embankment, by David Wynne. For me, this is just exhilaration personified.
I think these all appeal to me because of the poise and balance captured in each piece. Lightness and delicacy wrought in a heavy substance that appears almost impossible.
And this photograph of the statue, Evocation of Speed by Judy Boyt, taken from an upstairs window in Epsom Library, was what inspired me to write:
They say ‘vertigo’ is the fear of heights But it’s ‘verdegris’ they mean, For when I find myself too high I turn a shade of green.
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Tuesday 22nd August 2006
Have come across a site called Technorati which helps link bloggers on like subjects together and part of the joining process is to “claim my blog”, to which end I am writing this now. Potentially exciting, eh?.
