Sunday, March 20, 2011

Newts, hail and full moon

Hello everyone.  Four of my pictures have been accepted in a local show!  So I've been preparing them...this involves printing on silk, fringing the silk and then sewing it onto a felted background.  I decided to wait until the show actually happens (early in April), to make a posting of the actual images.  So until then, here is the sign from the park where the road is closed for newts:

We have been having a great deal of rain.  Friday evening there was a loud, flashy thunderstorm that must have been right over head...it was quite noisy.  Later I looked out to check on the doves and lo and behold the ground was white...not with snow, but HAIL! 

It was still on the ground the next afternoon:

and here, completing my report of mysterious events,  is the very nearly full moon:

4 comments:

  1. Thankyou for the newt notice! So good to see they are being looked after.
    That is a beautiful moon. It's a spring moon for you - I went out to watch the very same moon and it was the autumn moon for me.

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  2. Congratulations on getting so many pieces into that show! Well done you.
    Strange things happening in your neck of the woods under a beautiful full moon.

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  3. Elizabeth, what a moon it has been...it hardly seems possible that spring can be here; we've had such unsettled weather lately. It continuously amazes me that the same moon heralds the opposite season down under...it's a good balance, making me glad the world is round!

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  4. Hi Penny...yes, I was so surprised that even one was accepted...I'm glad to have this work of preparation to do right now. Good to hear from you.

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