Tuesday Post

 Hi Everybody!

Hope your week got off to a good start. Here we had another demonstration on Sunday in Düsseldorf, with an eclectic mix of people who are 'anti' this and 'anti' that - some are against vaccinations, others against things being digitalised, some were militant vegans, others were warning of all the world conspiracies.... Bill Gates is to blame, China is to blame, the governments of the world are to blame etc etc and  none of them  want to wear masks, because Corona isn't dangerous - bla, bla, bla. They were expecting 10000 -15000 people, but less than 5000 came. They did at least try to keep their distance and were peaceful..... I sometimes wonder why so many people are so stupid. 

Anyway, after all that I just needed to make something silly, and have an A3 mixed media journal page with a textured background to share. I'm showcasing another of the strange birds of Balconia-by-the-Rhine , this time the lesser spotted doodle bird. This is a bird which has a keen sense of humour, and its call is 'haha-heehee' :

I painted the circles and doodled the rest, adding a few scraps of paper napkins and some flocked, non-woven material. I am linking to Jo's texture challenge at Art Journal Journey

And I am sharing photos of some of the other winged inhabitants I see here in Balconia on a regular basis:

(I'm wondering if David can name the blue bird on this photo):

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T sTands for Tag Tuesday

Hi Everybody!

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend. We had good weather here, warm, and very sunny, lovely for walking. I had a restful time, with walking,  crafting and reading and enjoyed it very much!

This evening we are starting a new theme at Tag Tuesday, and this time our lovely Sandie is hosting, and has chosen the theme of 'book-print'. This is a theme I like, so I have made a row of tags, and am showing you 2 of them here. My neighbour picked a name out of the hat, and one participant will be getting a prize, all will be revealed when the challenge goes live this evening!

The first one has some fun images placed over old book-print:

The second one has paper from the 18th century combined with some TH images.The trellis was die cut and the tag was stitched:

This evening we will also be gathering for Elizabeth's T sTands for Tuesday link party, so welcome to all of the lovely ladies of the T Gang who come by. My drink was a large cappuccino which I drank while people watching:

I baked an apple tart with cinnamon-caramel added, and it was very delicious:

The photos are not in the right order, Blogger mixed them for me, so I'm showing them as they arrived.

This hawk or whatever it is (David will know!) kept sitting in the tree at the end of the yard, which made the pigeons and crows all get their feathers ruffled and their knickers in a twist:

Lots of walks along the Rhine:

Another hawk (? ) sitting on the fence looking for breakfast:

A sunflower growing at the tram stop:

Beautiful mornings:

The past few days Venus has been twinkling at me from the sky when I get up:

I tried to zoom in on Venus, but this was the best I could do:

The cormorant on his watch-tower:

The fishing crow:

Some stones from the old cemetery:

This plant - actually a whole row of them - is growing out of the crack on the parapet of the little bridge over the stream. It has fuzzy leaves, and is about 18" in diameter.  Does anybody know what it is?

That's all for today. Take care, have a great day,

and thanks a lot for coming by!