Black Cat Day

Slugger Mayzie 5th May 1998 - 7th March 2016

Poppies Are Not Just For Remembrance

They are also for eternal sleep, imagination, consolation, pleasure and fantastic extravagance - take your pick - and that's just the red ones. But I do like it that such a showy flower blooms with such abandon in the fields and the roadside. And there are few flowers (except Honesty with its stunning papery seed pod) that look so beautiful at so many stages of their life cycle. Here's a series of photos I took this summer.

45 Days to Go

So the countdown to the next Open House has started... 45 days to go. It's at this point that most of us start thinking "must get on with some work".  Not so Ruth Mullan who has been super busy and creative with lots of new stained and fused glass on the go.  Here is an owl in various stages of construction. Can't wait to see it in real life.