#265 - All the colours of nature

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Our geese return

It has been a beautiful start to the week. Lots of bird paintings were touched up by way of cheating, I played the piano, I went for my run, cooked, did the weekly shop. The one thing I DIDN'T do was hoover the house and garden, BUT it seems the weather is going to be good all this week and I did go out to the garden today to survey the wreckage. what has to be done. The nice thing is that I know what to do. I'm not feeling overwhelmed or anything.

Bright and beautiful - Bullfinch

I REALLY must wake at 4 am Which means going to bed at 9 pm and NOT taking the iPad with me. If I do, I end up doing crap on it for two hours and then falling asleep at 2 pm which means that I wake up at 6 which is too late really because I LOVE getting up at 4 am, writing for two hours, having the day ahead of me, running and then moving into the wonderful day.

A Little Bit Blue - Blue Tit

Only Robins are left singing now on the Comber Greenway. They click and sing - the clicking is known as a call. I am going to do the class prep today. Main Lesson today was good between Climate Change and the Annunaki, it has been a gallop through life.

I have to say that I'm beginning to feel a bit unconfident about the school and the type of education we give the kids. I feel like when I hear from other schools that they are doing great things too. Although people who are more critical, well they don't hold their punches. I don't know what to feel really. 

Long-tailed Tit
Anyhow, these paintings, i did them about a year, maybe two ago and they were awful. Then I looked at them yesterday and I thought I know how to fix them. The Brent Geese flying in though - I did that straight off, which tells me I am now a better painter.

Chocolate Splendour - Wren
Monochromatic Melody - pied Wagtail

I'm especially happy with how I fixed this beauty. Cute wee thing. The only thing left to do today after doing dinner is to class plan. I need to hoover the house though. I should have done it yesterday.

Flowers from Sunday
Gifts from the Christian community to take away. They were too pretty to bring to school. So I'm enjoying them here for myself.

The largess of Summer


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