wood from groynes

This is from Saturdays walk, some of the wood from the groynes near Victor. This year there have been a lot of big seas and high tides and the sand has almost covered some of them.
They were covered in sea weed and odds and ends and the old bolts are very rusty and weeping rust colour down the posts.
I have no idea what the wood is but it has lasted for a very long time.

Fuchsias in a glass vase

It is winter so more time, a bit to be inside. I picked these last night, it is amazing how they manage to hold on through winter if we dont have a frost.
I did go for a walk last night and again today so now I have to keep it up.
Thank goodness I seem to have been unspammed from my back valley seasons blog so I can now post there as well.

Candlelight

Last night we had a black out so I drew the candle that was helping to light the house. I think we had two torches and about 8 candles. I will have to buy some more.
I am having terrible trouble with my Back Valley seasons blog. I first lost the links I had up, then the ability to put up the links and now blogger thinks I am spam so I am blocked out. I hope not for too long.
I have put as many links as I can remember on this blog, so a lot are not sketching related but more to stitching but I like to be able to have them near by.
It is freezing cold here and it was market morning and a walk this morning. Luckily it wasnt doing much more than drizzle.
We seem to be expecting rain and high winds but so far it isnt too bad, just that having sat at this computer in the freezing cold my knees have decided to seize up. So I am off to sit by the fire.

My sketching bag

There has been some discussion on the sketchercise ning group that I belong to about what we take with us to sketch. This is not always what I use but it has gone to many places with me. It is a camera bag which holds as you can see a small sketchpad that I actually bought at Dick Blick when I was in California last year , a pill bottle of water, my small paint tin, some tissues and a pen and 2 small travelling brushes. I can also fit in my camera and spare batteries. I can sling it around my neck or over my shoulder and I could put it on a belt if I wore one.

Fungi in the grass

While walking early yesterday morning I sketched this nestling in the grass and added some color when I got home. I have called it a mushroom but I dont think I would like to eat it, but mushroom or toadstool I really dont know.

Bird feeder

With foggy nights and cold days and damp drizzle the rosellas are loving my bird feeder. It doesnt hang very straight but that doesnt deter them.
I am not walking terribly far at the moment as my arthritis is giving me hell.
No time for anything but quick sketches, I am still trying to make this house presentable for visitors.

Droplets of rain on foliage

Yesterday we aroke to find a bit of fog and drizzle and I raced out to take photos and try very quickly to get some leaves and twigs sketched. Not as I would like it but as I have started to sketchersize on ning with a few others I have to get something done in my increasingly busy life.
To day we have fog and I am on my way to Adelaide.