This Was Forest Not Long Ago I went for a small drive along the Old Beech Forest Road, which is the road I live on .About 5-6 kilome...

Forest Near my Home 

Printing Poppies I want to make some poppy lace- as one of the things I remember from my childhood in the Netherlands is Flanders poppie...

Forest IV This is a photo of a quilt I showed at European Carrefour Patchwork which is held in Val d'Argent in France. It is essent...

drochel lace Finally another piece of lace finished. It is quite large about 110 cm wide and nearly 300 cms long. The straight stitchin...

Castello Casatico Julio Romano The photographs contained in todays post are of the Castello designed by Julio Romano for Baldassa...

Ada Melegari's Castello Casatico

Castello Casatico 

Forest Fabric I have been dyeing quite a lot of fabric recently. This is one forest piece. I am selling them through my picturetrai l sit...

Tree for Life I am shocked by the devastation of the eartquake in Sumatra and the tsunami that followed and destroyed so much in countri...

Artichoke This morning I photographed some more things in my garden. I just love the picture of this artichoke flower- yes I know anoth...

Honeycomb 

Making Lace Yesterday I pinned together this piece of lace- it is just over a metre wide and about 3 metres long, now I am sewing in the...

Kangaroos My kids went out this evening into the bush with our friends Audrey and Daniel ,and this is what they saw. I think it beats a ...

Last night's Fire I live in a region that experience extreme fire conditions in summer. Fortunately that has not happened so far t...

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone I know has a happy and safe new year, that somehow humans will find a way to be peaceful, and grant e...

Arches at Parc Guell Gaudi built the Parc Guell for his benefactor Guell and gaudi actually lived in the parc in his later life. The...

One of Gaudi's Drawings If one city is defined by the artist who lived there then surely that city must be Barcelona. I went there ...

La Pedrera and Sagrada Familia 

Close-up of African Journey Yesterday was a day I would rather forget- everything I tried somehow went wrong- and then the temepratur...