Playing Hookey

Its such a lovely day so I took a break and had a walk in the woods with Willow and saw willow leaves like these.

I didn't take my camera but these are old photos taken about the same time of year.

As I was walking I started saying something I remember my Dad taught me when I was little

'Come little leaves said the wind one day

Over the meadows with me to play

Put on your dresses of scarlet and gold

For the summer has gone and the days have grown cold'

I might have remembered it wrong but I do love poetry and have all sorts of snippets stuck in my brain from the past.

'The woods are lonely dark and deep and I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep'

...and miles to SEW before I sleep!

Thanks you to those people who have put a link on their blog to my survey. I am going to thank you by giving you two 'tickets' in the draw.

As far as I can tell they are Robin, Jennyflower,Tricks, Julie of Mixed Media.

If I've missed anyone please let me know. Its a big blog world out there.

Only 25 wrists to go, and only three days. Its the draw on Friday.

Into the blue

Although the Village I live in isn't the prettiest or the most picturesque, it is in a lovely setting on the West Pennine Moors, a relatively 'undiscovered' area.
There are woodlands for wanderings

and wonderings. Ponds for ponderings (is this a bouquet for a wood nymph?Click on the picture for a closer look, its exquisite and totally natural)
and moorlands for musings and meanderings, and, at this time of the year, listening to the cuckoo.

And of course all this leads to inspiration, and a colour shuffle.

I do my best designs when I am walking with Willow
Willow doesn't see very much these days, but she's good company and keeps her opinions to herself, and plods on stoically even though her legs buckle a bit now and then.
Of course I've forgotten everything by the time I get home, and so has Willow.

So I don't embarrass her with questions.

Talking of questions. Thank you to Lindsay at ethelandednastearoom for tagging me. Her blog is definitely worth a visit.

I've tagged

Laurie at 23 Beechhill
SSimpson
Celia at Cheshire Cheese
Tin can canoe
Ann at Textile Art Showcase

There. I've done it. Nice to have been tagged but nice to have successfully tagged.