Solway skies and light

A lovely light down on the beach this morning - totally different depending on which way you looked, but which ever way you looked it was cold!

From Mawbray into the Central Lakes 

Along towards Allonby 

More stars, cones and ...ants!

A day of finishing off - photos of some new straw stars and a plaited heart; added buttons to the tops of hanging cones - to be put away for next Christmas; made boxes from flat packed nets I'd bought...and Tom made this gorgeous ant!

Snowdrops and Primroses

New card ideas to remind us that, hopefully, spring will arrive at some stage.
There are absolutely no signs of new life in the garden and certainly no signs of snowdrops even being in bud; then again, the rebekkia are still in flower from last autumn!

Mawbray revisited - debris and destruction

Re-walked part of the Mawbray to Allonby walk in the wake of yesterday's storm; in the calm before tomorrow's storm.

The whole back of the beach has changed at Mawbray with a high wrack line. Plastic rubbish dominates.

Stone gabions and concrete ripped apart.

Below - close up of some fabulously colourful bark on a washed up branch.

Straw stars and snowflakes

The end of a year so time and an experiment with a new craft - straw work - good fun and it certainly keeps the grey matter stimulated!

First attempts; so there are mistakes.

Happy New Year to all. 

Mawbray to Allonby

A refreshing walk after yesterday's storms and plenty of flotsam and jetsam to scrat among!

Strong shadows in the bright light; cast off netting; rusting bolts - there were also large drifts of whelk shells.

Goose barnacles with Criffel in the background

Boxing Day Walk - Burgh-by-Sands

A lovely walk with Mum and Dad down onto the marsh.

Merry Christmas to all!

Pink-feet skeins: whooper swans; Rocky; reflections in the Eden