Rain's Thursday Art Date - your flower

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are all well and happy. We have been having some cool but sunny days here, so it was great for walking, and I was able to visit some parks that have been closed these past weeks. Next week we have been threatened with wintry weather and perhaps even snow!

Rain's theme this week is 'your flower'. I am a great fan of flowers of all sorts, including wild flowers, which I do not regard as unwanted weeds. In my previous home I had my garden full of dandelions and daisies, Queen Anne's Lace, Morning glory, poppies and many other flowers which most 'serious' gardeners here do not like. Anyway, I liked it, an was always happy sitting on my wild-flower meadow.

I made this piece for the last challenge at AJJ, and never got round to posting it - the month was too short - so I added some flowers and now I have a piece for Mia's  'flowers' challenge. I digitally put together various images from Pexels,  Serif and me:

And I have lots of floral pieces from previous times. I love working with flowers, birds, old photos and various artifacts:

This one is showing an unknown girl, my mother and Erika:

This old photo is showing three of my elder siblings, taken at a 'wings for freedom' rally in Trafalgar square in 1943:

A pink eyed lady:

Beautiful Frida, always with flowers:

This photo shows my Mother - standing, second from left,her 2 elder sisters, right and left, and the happy(??) couple getting married, my great Uncle Benny and his bride. I love their dresses:

And this is my mum as a toddler:

I am also linking to Paint Party Friday

These photos were taken on yesterday's walk to Schloss (castle) Kalkum:

I was happy to find the gates open again:

My fave lion was holding his nose in the sun:

And at last I got to see the goslings of the Canada geese:

It was a magical atmosphere at the lake, and I stood and watched them for a long time:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

New challenge at MMM

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting  a new challenge at More Mixed Media blog. Our challenges are always anything goes, this time with the optional addition of pink. As always, the challenge will run for 4 weeks. You can enter as often as you want, and it would be great to see YOU there. Lozzy always offers prizes of digital paper packs, too:

It started out as an underlay page, and had various smudges and scribbles and the peacock feathers on it, as I had been trying out the stencil. Then it got a layer of diluted gesso to tone it down a bit. I had been trying to glue the pink netting to something else, but it wouldn't stick. Then I put it on here while I was talking on the phone, and it stuck straightaway!

When the gesso was dry I added some pink acrylic paint and wiped some of it off with a wet rag. When it was dry I went to work on it with stencils, doodling, die-cuts and some sewing. I am practising some doodling each day to get my fingers working again:

And some photos from my walks around here:

The tiny chapel in a neighbouring park:

Somebody just let the glasses here:

Does anyone know what these feathery things are called?

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!