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Todays calendar page is not wrong!
After a lovely busy Summer bursting with family affairs, teaching, holidays and other welcome distractions, today is the first day I find myself home alone and able to concentrate.
So I picked this interesting Hydrangea flower from the garden and got re-acquainted with my paintbrush. It feels good 🙂
Everything has a season so they say and this year has not been my season for the garden (poor neglected thing).
However some past efforts continue to pay dividends – thank you Roses, that white weed thingy, the cow-parsley plant, my patio pots and of course the Alchemilla Mollis.
I snipped a few things I could find the other day  – all pleasingly lime green, green and yellow (thank you garden for self-theming the colours) and popped them into my 25 pence bargain jug for an afternoons play with the paints.
Just popping in at the end of a long day fuelled by 5 hours sleep (yes I’m a worry guts!)
This was my car once hb had packed it solid left to right, top to both.
The blank space before ….
Hb (the patient one) hanging pictures straight and evenly spaced!
The final scene – my little home for the next four days 🙂
I can tell you about my week through my ‘painting-a-day’ paintings.
May 23rd   © Claire LeggettÂ
An orchid from the salad at our Thai meal to celebrate being wedded for twenty whole years – yes I did take a flower out of the salad and yes, I did say 20 years!
May 24th   © Claire LeggettÂ
A pale pink, double-headed Aquilegia which was the only casualty of having a new fence put up down one side of the garden.
May 25th   © Claire LeggettÂ
A raspberry pink, candy striped Dahlia bought on impulse at a grocer’s shop in Ledbury.
I was in Ledbury (which is a sweet, quintessentially English market town) to drop off some paintings at Shell House Gallery.
Saturday 26th May is the opening day of “Artists Garden” – a group show. I love painting flowers from my garden and so was delighted to be able to join in. While I was there I bought these dahlias and some other fabulous bedding plants to paint, so the cycle continues.
