The two Fridas....

Hi Everybody!

Hope you have all had a great weekend.

We have had stormy weather here - hot, humid, windy, cloudy, sunny with rain-showers! I managed 2 almost dry walks, and even the few drops of rain that got me were not bad as it was really hot!

I have made another journal page using one of my try-out pieces. The 2 heads were on the back of a calendar page, and just needed bodies. I was inspired by one of Frida's paintings, called the 2 Fridas.  I used a 'body' I found in my stash  as a template. After using oil pastels to colour them a bit, I stamped the flowers, hearts  and scrolls (which were in my package from Susi, thanks again) with black archival, and coloured them again with oil pastels. I didn't like the white background, so I cut the ladies out and fixed them to a sheet of DP. The owl is from a paper napkin, the other embellies are vintage German scrap. I am linking to Susi's Brainchild Art Journal Journey and to Conny's Mix it monthly, crazy dresses.

This is another Frida Journal page made earlier this year, and will also be given a page in my Frida Journal.

This afternoon I took the path between the lakes again, which is very pretty, but it was not a good idea wearing sandals as the puddles were very large....

The wind was blowing along the Rhine:

This beautiful flower was growing over a fence:

The ducks were holding a meeting:

This family was enjoying a ride through the park:

And the apples look very tempting, but too high for me to reach!

This strange fly was sitting on one of my balcony lamps this morning. It was not shy, didn't even blink when I took my photo. I think it is really gross, and have never seen one like it before. It's quite large, about 1". I looked it up on the net, and it is a flesh fly, and likes to lay its eggs on dead matter and bodies - Yuck!
And she doesn't seem to worry about shaving her legs either!

And this was another sight that I did not like. A lot of people like to picnic at the Rhine, which is fine, and the majority take their rubbish back home with them, or deposit it in the bins which are there for this purpose. Someone must have taken a shopping cart from the local supermarket to carry the food and drinks, and just thrown it into the river afterwards.

Here's wishing you all a great week, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!