Friday 29 November 2013

Snow days and Paint Party Friday

Friday already and I'm Linking to Paint Party Friday - with many Thanks to EVA & Kristin - whilst sharing some Snow....

Just got back from the Brecon mountains in Wales.  A lovely time revisiting familiar places and sightseeing.    So, here's a few (a lot) of pix for you to enjoy and a little sketching too, which I thoroughly enjoyed doing at the time...(although I have to admit I sketched them in the car but didn't add the watercolour til later)...






Watercolour in my large moleskine book...





The higher we drove the more snow we found, but it was lovely to see the comparison between 'High and Cold with Snow' and 'Sunny and a bit warmer at lower level'...... 




close up...


and


I took some videos of the drive.....so if you have got this far perhaps you would like to see these.  Apologies for the dead flies on the windscreen, flies will obviously do anything to get in on a video!

In Video 1, it would seem that some drivers had more trouble with the icy conditions than us......




This area reminds us so much of our own Dartmoor,
especially when it is snow capped.



~ Have a terrific weekend all ~




Saturday 23 November 2013

This is what happens

when daughter catches me looking over the stable door with her horse......I'm on the right!







Wednesday 13 November 2013

A Winter walk


Another walk a few days ago and we drove round to Westward ho!   Always good for a wander and it is nice seeing the various beach huts along the esplanade.  Now mostly closed up for the Winter months.  There was one I spied though with its door open and the owners still enjoying it this side of New Year...


















Saturday 9 November 2013

Walk


The other day we took a wander along the Tarka line.  A former railway line now used by walkers and cyclists.

There seemed to be some ominous black smoke in the distance...we never found out what that was about..



this is the estuary looking towards Barnstaple...



so pleased I have a good zoom on my camera...from this spot I zoomed towards the bridge