flowers,mosses,close ups.and diary

  IN this page i hope to entertain those of you who get pleasure from flowers and garden creatures,as well as a diary of what i observe when getting the garden ready for this years visitors ,i would also like to welcome our friends from around the world who visit us from stumbleupon.com i have seen some stunning artwork there.i have many more pictures for you please call again soon.mike...ps i must say the reproduction of my work is second to none on blogspot,i will also feature some painting tuition as i will have a little more time soon that is why i have not been able to work on here,27 MARCH bottom left is a picture i took fri night i was testing a new lens set up i have just made to fit

on my camera,i used cardboard glue elastic bands to make it the lighting was electric,the flowers are real from my garden,but the brimstone which sometimes comes out in the February sunshine after hibernating all winter,has been painted with a brush on the computer,it is not a photograph that has been enhanced with a program,i start with a blank canvas draw the shape then paint it from colour swatches,you may for your own use copy,but my work is not to be reused,or for commercial purposes.bye mike...to view click the brimstone now larger click again scroll to see details..enjoy THE collarge left is of mixed flowers ,the wallflower ,bluebell ,under electric light with my home made set up,taken last year,NEXT a lucky ladybirds tale,PLEASE NOTE IT IS MY PLEASURE TO PRESENT,this work for you you may copy these pictures for you own use but

not for commercial or re use,please enjoy mike LEFT is a picture of lucky the ladybird so called as i fished him out of a barrel of water outside my greenhouse when i went to water this years foxgloves im growing early for the bees,he appeared to be dead so i thought i would take him into the house to take some close up pictures but he began to move again,so i put him on a plant and took these pictures.


the first picture in the collage is from guest artist Richard who emailed me to say that something strange had happened when he went into his garden out of nowhere three ladybird landed right next to him i have never seen that in all my years nature study ,it pays to be kind to the weak and to all living things,the north american Indian night.