The End Of A Summer.

As summer draws to a close and the song of Autumn begins I sit in the quiet times past midnight and wonder about what I have seen on these warm days and cricket chirping. bat swooping moonlit nights.

Mackerel moon lighted skies and shooting stars during the perseoid meteor showers a couple of weeks back.  Moths found alive and dead. Whenever moths pitch on the window or I sadly find them dead as the one in the top left picture, I always imagine they are Princes.  Tiny Princes wearing tiny cloaks. I must paint one soon!

 Butterflies and yet more butterflies and green green grasshoppers.

Inspired by butterflies I painted these on a hanger that I was working on.

 Then a couple of days later I was paid a visit by this beautiful little creature. Synchronicity? :)

I've been working on a large batch of wooden hangers that will arrive at my Etsy shop in September sometime.. Various creatures, this is one of them. A crow with the universe in his wings.

I liked this concept, so I also used it for my donation piece to the 'twitter art exhibit' exhibition. Postcard sized original pieces, by artists on twitter. They all sell for a certain price and all proceeds are donated to charity.

The other day I popped out in my lunch hour again and visited the latest photographic exhibition in the local museum which is such a beautiful old building.

 I really liked the pictures by Deborah Parkin.

Especially this one, very wonderland-ish (although they all were) and it  reminded me of a project that I did myself when I was at College many years ago.

Although the mask that I made was a fox, rather than a rabbit. :)  Remind me to show you the pictures one of these days.

I love this time of year when the birds begin to sing the song of September and the thistle down  blows on the wind. 

And the gentle sunsets remind birds that it will be time to move on soon.

I shall leave you now with sadness in my heart.  The badger cull is taking place now as you go about what you do wherever you are. As the moths tap on my window unknowingly and I type this. Please sign this if you haven't already.....and if you live outside of the uk you can sign this. Every signature counts even at this late stage.

I will be closing my Etsy shop for a short spell as of Friday evening but will be back in September.

In the meantime I'll leave you with this, that is just simply adorable.