weekend life

our walk yesterday evening, grasses galore, I collected a bunch with many different varieties, the colours are amazingly, beautifully soft, ranging from pink to purple, creams, light greens, silvers and golds

all of a sudden you can hardly see the water for all the surrounding vegetation, summer is almost upon us

the flour-resist results, a surpise to me; beforehand I had imagined the flour markings would stay white, then realising my faulty reasoning as the 'back side' would of course catch some of  the dye; however even more surprising to me: the flour lines are the darkest.
 the fabric was in the old comfrey/sorrel/nettle/black bean dye from last weekend; I used ready-made stencils for crisp lines and speed, now that I know more or less what to expect I can of course do more research into and experimenting with this cheap and easy technique.

a view, amongst other things, of 'the island' underneath the studio lean-to: the branch has sprouted, I have no idea what if anything became of the larvae; I dare not stir the waters, I have been topping up the fluids; looking through the window you can see honeysuckle and ivy growing around the entrance to the garden

looking at studio plus lean-to, as you can see we are surrounded by greens; the tree branches top left and right are two plum varieties (opal and reine claude) in the raised bed mint and ruigklokje or nettle-leaved bellflower; the sweet pea has established itself snugly up against the studio, it refuses to grow elsewhere in the garden; in far back left in pic are hazel-trees, up above the row of poplars in the street