Remember Summer

When Christmas is over I will be looking forward to summer. I do not like the snow and cold of winter. I love the sun and the garden. It would be great to think next year could be the year when we see a lot of sun it does happen every ten years so they say we are long overdue. Pictures of my town

Art Journal of My Holiday in the States

I have at last found time to take photos of my holiday art journal and post them. Its the first journal Ive done I started it at home with some painting and collaging then did the jounaling when resting in the hotels we stayed at along the way. I finished it off when I returned. The book I used was about 3.5" x 5" the paper was handmade which meant I had to watch the pens I used as some bled through to the next page. I mostly used gel pens with watercolour paint. I did enjoy doing this a record of a great time


I am now making a Christmas Journal

Near to Lafayette. We stayed at Bayou Cabins delightful place to stay.

The Swamp or Bayou St Martins Lake Breaux Bridge I did quite a few pages from here

These pages are all from New Orleans

Our Trip to America

We have been back now for over nine weeks it has taken all this time to sort out all the photos Russell took. We or I should say Russell drove at least 3000 miles from Washington to New Orleans we took around 1500 photos. Something I have always wanted to do is visit America to see the way of life speak to the American people hear the music and maybe have a dance not to mention all the tourist places to visit. We couldnt stay long in each place as we had just two weeks to do the drive but we did get a flavour of America and driving ourselves we could go where we wanted drive down the backroads and stop whenever we decided. We had a great adventure and we enjoyed every moment even when the police stopped us for speeding - they did let us off. I enjoyed the heat up to 98f at times but of course with the air conditioning it made it comfortable but being very English we had to turn it off in the middle of the night I was getting cold and the noise was keeping me awake.
If you ever get the opportunity to take a trip like this do it was great fun and with the sat nav and the American roads no roundabouts its great.
I hope you will read some of this I know its a bit long and I dont blog about travel but couldnt help myself. I did do an art journal so might take one or two pics to show you later.