Merry Christmas

 Robin and me wishing you a happy merry Christmas

Painting woodpecker and sparrows

 

Have been painting last week.  (oil on linen canvas 45x38cm.)

I love doing oil painting and I love birds...so its not difficult to find a subject for my paintings.

Not sure yet if it is finished, but I don't know what to do more and let it sit for a while. 

Its very difficult to make a photo of the painting without a shiny glare, 
I still don't know how to do that. 

Bumble

 I noticed a bumble sitting on the bench outside. He sat there a long time and it looked to me that he was eating from the wood.

However I don't know if they do such a thing like that. I know of wasps seeing doing that too.

Anyhow he gave me some time to make some pics from all sides, without flying away. 

Helleboris

 As the year is running to an end, 

I cannot wait till the days are getting longer and heading up for spring.
I don't like the short days. 
I got recently this beautiful Helleboris. 
Its acting as if spring already is on its way. with lots of promising buds in the making.

Its so amazing all these white budding buds. 
Its name is 'Winter Angels' which is so lovely as well.

Cashing nuts

 Squirrel busy cashing nuts.

I don't see the squirrels very often, because I forget sometimes to give them nuts.
But today I did.
And he was happy to find them.  And me happy to be able to grab my camera just in time.

Ladybirds cluster

 A cluster of ladybirds have settled themselves in a corner of the ceiling for hibernation.

'Hmmm' I don't think that's a good idea, because when its gets colder the central heating will make it maybe too warm for them, so that they wake up again.

Weird enough, several years ago, another group of ladybirds did the same thing and sat hibernating on the same spot! 
I don't think they are the same ladybirds, but another generation. 3 years ago.
Why do they take the same spot? There are lots of other places....

 I posted in 2022 a post on 24-10-22 with a group of ladybirds sitting there on the same spot. Isn't that weird?

And here I found another group on the same spot back in 2016 

It does not make sense to me at all. Does anyone know? 

Squirrel

 Squirrel visiting again to cash nuts.

Squirrel

 It has been a challenging time for me, after crashing and some broken and bruised parts. Hospital, rehab and finally home again. Was n't able to do some doodles, cause my ipad failed to upload the images, for whatever reason.

Doing a lot of doing nothing...Time to reflect and process. 
Squirrel in the meantime is cashing his nuts. I'm happy he comes back, after he discovered there are still nuts, without the neighbors nut-tree. 
Every day I throw some nuts outside and he is happy finding them. storing them in pots and between plants and in the ground in the grass. I love watching him as always. 

Fallen

A week agoI fell to the ground, which is not good for me. 

Have been 3 days in hospital and now trying to recover again. That’s quite an experience.

dealing with broken bone and a badly injured knee.That was not on my agenda.

It does not feel very comfortable. Besides that the painkillers almost knocked me out because of the morfine in it. Being small and than given a too high dose, does help for the pain, but side effects of  fainting, being dizzy and having hangover's, makes it far worse than it is. 

Anyway. It takes time to get me on the go again. Maybe from here I can do some doodles. 

2 robins in the mist

Yesterday, It was very misty in the morning. Actually it was a beautiful beginning of the day. 
I heard a robin singing his silvery song and then suddenly I noticed another robin looking and listening as well to the lovely song. 

So enchanting...
 

OWL's JOURNEY and UILS REIS

 

 

 

It took a while.

I published OWL's YOURNEY and UILS REIS.

A story I made on my blog 15 years ago in 2010. 

OWL is going on a Journey. He sees very interesting things 

He meets someone special and some unexpected and unseen things, he never heard off nor has ever seen. 

 

It's  inspired on a Bible verse out of 1 Cor:2:9

Things never discovered or heard before, things beyond your ability to imagine, these are the things God has in store for all his lovers. 

 

The English version and the Dutch version.
Available tomorrow on Amazon. 

Autumn leaf

 It's drizzling, cold and a grey sky today.

From my bedroom window I can see this leaf in heart shape, slowly changing colors.

I mostly don't like saying goodbye to summer, but there is no return.
I think this heart shape is a lovely symbol for the coming season, telling me to enjoy and love this.

Squirrel

 It has been a long time, that I saw a squirrel in my garden.

I really miss them.
Last year the wall-nut tree of my neighbors died and has been cut down. 
That's very bad for me and the squirrels. Or vice versa, bad for the squirrels and me.
I don't know who to mention first here.
Now I'm trying to get the squirrels back, by putting out some nuts I have collected.
Maybe they will be surprised to find nuts, even when the tree has gone.
Yesterday a dark-brown red squirrel found some of the nuts. 
He quickly cashed them in pots and hiding them in the grass.
I hope he will come back soon to find more.

Playing in the Light 3

 What or how does it look like in the dark?

Playing with the Light and being hit by the Light?

Looks fun to me! 

Playing with Light

What will happen when you're playing with light, 
and then the Light hits you or you hit the Light, one way or the other?

I was wondering/pondering his the next day, after I had made the first drawing.
So, I made this drawing to make it more reality and visible. 

Please, let me know what you think in the comments... 

 see also yesterdays post.