Tag: season

• Snow into Spring

  

  The winter in Britain this year has been exceptional, one of the worst in recent memory. This week we’ve seen farmers desperately trying to rescue their sheep and cattle, buried deep in snow drifting over the hedges where they sought shelter. Where the sun breaks through there is a slow thaw, but in the hedgerows […]

  Maxine Dodd – Art

  03/03/2013

  Life, weather, wildlife

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• January blues

  

  This week the weather steadied – snow bedded deep and days were cold. The whiteness is wearing and we’re all tired. I ventured out  to meet my friend Sheila who was painting nearby, but mostly continued work in the garden. Along with my usual pen and watercolour, I changed to oil paint on board for […]

  Maxine Dodd – Art

  25/01/2013

  birds, gardens, Life, weather, wildlife

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