Single Male Pheasant Looking for Company!

He spent the day hanging around

Patiently waiting

As if he had arranged a rendezvous

"Let's meet by the Tanglewood pond after our summer vacations."

It is hunting season

 I am glad he is here.... protected.

Lately, on our daily walks along the dyke

we have met hunters and their dogs working the bushes and grasses

trying to flush out ducks and pheasants.

I believe all the geese have gone south.

I am stitching rocks nowadays

but these untamed woods will appear back in my work

perhaps sooner rather than later.

Grey lines of stitch broken with yellow, rust, burgundy, rusty clusters

of french knots perhaps.

You all know what it is like looking at something that inspires

and you automatically imagine a stitching

or 

colours

shapes

lines

It is a grey, grey day outside

Grey and yellow

with dark lines of naked branches

Yummy!

greys

greens

yellows

oranges

reds

salmon pinks