Small pleasures (journaling and a garden visit!)

 Hi everyone, my Mojo isn't being particularly helpful these days. It may have something to do with what's been going on with my medication, time will tell.

Fortunately I have had this postcard floating around in one of my image/scrap boxes for several years and it is such a restful scene I am  putting it onto a page intended for Jo's 'Nature' theme at Art Journal Journey.

I used a Lavinia stencil for the background using Distress Inks (Vintage Photo and Tea Dye)I also added some around the edges of the page.

The two birds were fussy cut and came from an old bird identification book. The words are of course a Tim Holtz Smalltalk sticker.

Yesterday hubby persuaded me to have a walk at Styal on our way out to shop, I wasn't so keen but ended up being so pleased that we did. The sun obligingly shone for the time we were there.

Still some flowers around

Ferns are the most fascinating plant!

Pretty fungi nestling amongst the leaves

The River Bollin, which flows through the park was really raging.

Never mind hubby, look at those colours behind him!

More fern (no apology!)

If I was ever asked if I had a favourite plant it would be this hydrangea by the path at Styall! It's the one I look forward to seeing come into flower each year and it is still looking beautiful in mid November!

This little waterfall is by the shop and cafe - we could hear the roar from the weir and decided to take the path down for a proper look(by now I had forgotten that were supposed to be shopping!)

Getting closer...

Would you like to hear it? This is a video I took.

The final part with the grid is the fish bypass.

Just above the weir the water was calm enough to capture the reflection of the trees.

The sun was almost covered by cloud now but this was a bright spot - tumbling poppies

The sign says that the poppies were knitted or crocheted by staff and volunteers at Styal

We walked back up to the carpark.

Time to go shopping....

Thanks for looking, Chris