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DRAWING & PAINTING:
3 November
Finally there is room in the kitchen apple boxes to get the remaining apples off the tree. Once they are washed and dried, we keep them on the worktop in the hopes they will ripen a bit more in the warm.
We are having grated apple on our morning porridge nowadays but I get someone else to do the grating, as it is sharp, and I just do the eating!
4 November
Today we went to Kelsey Park. We like to go out when it is sunny. I took lots of wonderful autumn pictures. This one of a red tree in the lake is my best one and it would make a wonderful painting.
The ring-necked parakeets were playing about in the big dead tree trunk. I think they were biting the rotten wood in the holes to make them bigger, for next year's nest. Their beaks can do that very easily.
This grey wagtail was walking about in the shallows below the waterfall. This Egyptian goose was dibbling about in a puddle by the side of the path, I don't know what there was to eat there, only possibly a stray earthworm.
Lots of geese, seagulls, ducks and pigeons everywhere, all looking out for visitors with food.
I like to get pictures of the prettier pigeons, speckled and white ones. This one was sitting near the middle of the path, not concerned at all with people walking past.
This is looking down the waterfall that comes from the big lake. Beautiful red acer leaves by another bridge.
A white egret waiting for a meal to swim by, and a black cormorant drying his wings.
More white and black, a tree full of gulls, and a crow who has found something tiny but edible on the ground. I like crows, they are so smart-looking and shiny, as well as being intelligent.
Brown Teddy likes these little places where you can go carefully down to the water's edge. We sat on a seat by these railings, and the gardeners have cut a hole for the geese.
Here they are, going through from the lake to the gardens part to eat the grass, which was already very short.
5 November
A picture of nothing much, we woke up to thick fog which just about cleared by midday.
6 November
Here is my big desktop computer with all the USB cables plugged in and here is a new nano-computer that Mr Webmaster has bought. It will be interesting to know what it can do.
8 November
The hedges are on one of the large garden pieces, head over to the Knitting Gardens page to see progress and how it's done.
9 November
We have two big white swans in the park, looking very calm on the leafy water. These four Collared Doves were pecking around after the ducks had finished the grain that someone had put down for them. This is much better for them all than bread.
12 November
It was sunny so we had a walk by the river. I like this part, as below the wall is a little waterfall. Further on someone was feeding the ducks, so they were not hiding and resting in the reeds today.
This one is my favourite.
We all really like to stop awhile and watch the patterns in the water from twigs or hidden stones under the water.
14 November
We went through the park on the way to the shops. There is one big white goose, it is a lot bigger than all the others, and almost as big as the swan. The wind was sending the leaves everywhere, blowing them into heaps and little rows.
Not long till all the leaves come down.
15 November
Today was very sunny and shining on the Winter Jasmine that I can see from my living room window. Brown Teddy inspected the few tiny apples that we left on the tree. There would really be nothing much left if they were peeled!
Plenty of pyracantha berries at the bottom of the garden, the best place for a thorny bush, and we let it grow how it likes without cutting back. Blackie the Blackbird has been eating the Cotoneaster berries outside the kitchen window, as he waits there each morning for his bird pellets. There are more berries around the garden for the birds. Blackie has been around for years and years, sometimes raising two broods in one season.
21 November
Here is a rare visitor to our garden, a green woodpecker. He was poking about on the lawn. He kept eating something from this hole he made, and we are guessing he found an ants nest. Eventually he flew up to the tree trunk, his usual place of food searching in the cracks. We stood very still at the kitchen window with the camera and got him on video.
24 November
We have put our lights up a week early. I just love seeing them through the fuzzy curtains and I pretend I am seeing them through a snow blizzard!
29 November
This robin just wanted to make a good Christmas photo for us, either that or he was waiting for the usual breakfast offering. He is very patient in waiting for someone to come to the window. I think he sees the light going on in the bathroom every morning.
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