Friday, January 29, 2010

Art Books and Misty Walk at Lough Graney

Buster enjoying a drink in Lough Graney, County Clare, Ireland.

Art Books

Oh I'm such a lucky girl. A parcel arrived yesterday and in it was a fabulous book from my bloggy friend Bea, in Wisconsin, USA. Bea, you are so generous. Bea has a wonderful blog, full of lovely arty things and ideas and discussions and even 'temporal tapping'. Do go and give her a visit.

The book is called 'Intuitive Color & Design' and is written by Jean Wells. It promises me 'Adventures in Art Quilting'. Just what I need. Here are some examples of the contents:

Aren't the colours just fabulous?:

And I just love this design.

Bea has enrolled for a course to learn more about Photoshop and manipulating images therein. I tried to do the same but was too late but Bea mentioned a book she has - so I ordered it from Amazon and that has arrived too. This one is called 'Artistic photo quilts' and promises to help me to 'Create Stunning Quilts With Your Camera, Computer Cloth'. Well, what more could anyone want? This is by Charlotte Ziebarth.


Drool, drool!

So how on earth am I going to find time to do all this? I will just have to make time, won't I?

Jim and I still have much work to do inside the cottage. Today Jim has bought a wooden loft ladder to make some storage for my 'overspill' materials in the place that used to be his office in the eaves. Jim has moved his office to our old bedroom, right at the other end of the house. He can now stand up in it and walk around. The kitchen/diner desperately needs decorating and re-vamping as does the snug. Oh woe.

Lough Graney Walk

I took Buster for a walk to the lake while Jim went off shopping yesterday. It was a bit misty on top of Flagmount, the village on the other side of the Lough. The water has receded from the edges enabling us to walk alongside for quite a way, which we did. It was a bit soggy but I wore my new Christmas wellington boots:


Buster was rather cross that these ducks were too far away for him to chase.


Look at that cloud on top of Flagmount! Thank goodness we were dry.

There was a line of dead grasses where the level of the lake had receded, rather like on a beach when the tide goes out and leaves behind bits of seaweed and string.

I turned round and took this shot of the Fishing Stand, where I access the lake via Kevin the farmer's house and garden.

Turning again to Flagmount, the mist was descending.

It didn't seem too bad on our side, so we continued until we reached this tree:

You can see the mist encroaching across the lake. All of a sudden, I seemed to be getting rather wet, so Buster and I headed back home but it's hard to walk along the edge of the lake too quickly:

Oh oh, we didn't move fast enough!

You'll love this last shot of Flagmount:

Well, that's the island in front of it! No wonder we were getting soaked!

I'm off to bed now. I've taken some photos of the new settee and curtain material for my next post.

13 comments:

DK said...

aw... beautiful pictures Momma :-) love the misty shots. Hope you're enjoying the camera? xx

Jason said...

Oh looks almost summertime...lol Very atmospheric.

xx

Rachel Green said...

Super book1

I love the misty shots.

Carol said...

The books look wonderful!! I feel a trip to the art shop coming on....

C x

Heather said...

Even on a grey misty day your locality is still beautiful. Love the look of those books Gina - I particularly liked the crane quilt. When you're worn out from gardening/decorating you'll have plenty of more restful things to do.

The Weaver of Grass said...

It is so beautiful where you live Gina - and that glorious hound on your header, he looks such a thoroughbred.

Rima Staines said...

Hello Gina, had to post you a comment as my emails to you might be going astray?
Please write to me about a certain clock... ;)
Thank you and hugs
Rima

Bea said...

I'm so glad the book arrived. With the pictures you take I think you are going to have some fun combining them with fabric. Love the new boots. You certainly needed them, boy does it look soggy. Hey, I remember a picture you took where the dock was covered with water. Buster wasn't too happy about that one. Love the mist and fog pictures. :)Bea

aims said...

I love mist and fog so those pics did it for me.

Am sending off your link to another quilter. I know she's going to be amazed!

Anonymous said...

Yes Aims I am here ever curious having a look. Very familiar weather.

It does look very beautiful there on your walk.

BT said...

Thanks K, they were all with your camera. It seems to eat batteries though!!

lol Jason.

Glad you liked the misty photos Rachel.

Oh dear Carol, that's what happens I'm afraid!!

Thank you Heather. That crane quilt is beautiful, isn't it. How's your rug coming along?

Thank you Weaver, more of a rag, tag of a dog!!

Rima, I have sent you an email. I hope it gets to you.

Bea, you are a star. I hope I can do the book justice. Soggy? Oh, yes - we do soggy very well!!
Yes, it was covered in water when we had the floods! Floods, then snow, then ice. We get it all!

Hi aims, good to see you. Thanks for sending off my link. xxx

Hello Melanie, how good to meet you. I'll pop over to yours now!

Stampmaiden said...

Love the misty shots and those books are fantastic!
Linda

BT said...

Thanks Linda. xx