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Feeling Happy
A Spring walk in the Lakes.
My thanks to Sal for this lovely tag.
Hello!
Today I managed my first long walk around the block since the beginning of winter. It was boggy underfoot in the fields. There were a couple of times when I was doing the 'Bambi On Ice' scene...only this was on mud. Lol! It was real quagmire stuff in places but well worth the effort as you will see in my album above.
I can't believe how I am sleeping! I have more energy since I began to take my diabetic pills. What a difference there is in my sleep patterns. I had been accepting short sleeps of two and a half hours as normal since my cancer treatment began and finished. Its not worth stressing yourself about lack of it I found. Just get up and do something until your tired again and accept it was my motto. Now...wahaaaay! I only waken up once a night and can go straight back to sleep. I did the other morning until ten thirty. I have never done that for years!
So...I'm full of vim and verve again. I hope it isn't a fluke and that this new energy is here to stay. I look forward to getting out and about more.
I wasn't even breathless....magic! I feel normal at long last!
No more tiredenss or fuggy head.
Well...as you can see in the photos above, the day was a grey one but it was very mild and not a bit cold. Even though there is snow on the fell tops.
I sat at the top of Biskey Howe, the vantage point where you get to see a good bit of the lake and fell tops, and noticed how smokey grey the clouds were.
I called these days Maurice Crawshaw days when I worked in the Art Gallery here in the village. We had a very talented artist called Maurice Crawshaw, who revived the technique of creating pictures from candlesmoke. Just as the Victorian children once did on old plates by using the soot off the candles to blacken the plate and gently liftoff the soot to create a black and white picture. Maurice excelled at this and only he knew how to seal the soot and trap it for posterity inside a glass sealed frame. He designed pendants and earrings as well as brooches with his unique pictures inside them.
His usual ones are of a shepherd with his dog on the fells or of climbers or lakeland cottages with the shepherd walking home up the lane etc.
They are quite magical and mysterious pictures. Yes....made from real blackened soot from candlesmoke. Amazing! He would use various implements to remove the soot to leave behind the picture on the glass which had a grey/white background. Just like a reverse negative in a way. I wish I could show you one of them but they are originals and they are never shown on the gallery web site.
Since I made this entry it was brought to my attention by Julie of MidWestVintage that Maurice does have a web address. so if you are interested in seeing his work here is the link.
One other thing I would like to add is that when I spoke with him on the phone he was such a happy funny man. He had laughter in his voice and I was told he was just the same when you meet him, which I never did before I left the gallery. Which was a shame.
http://www.mauricecrawshaw.com/index.htm
Thanks Julie
Anyway....one day I will have a little shot at trying it for myself. I can just see the Victorian children on rainy Sundays after church, sitting their children down in the parlour to create pictures without the need of paper. If they made a mistake they could easily hold it over the candle and begin again. Now that would be a good way of leaving a green footprint in stead of using paper nowadays. Yes?
Well ..must go for now as tea is almost ready.
It's Bryan's 70th birthday on Sunday and I have decided that we will all go to the Superbowl at Morecambe to enjoy a game of bowling and then have a meal afterwards. Bryan doesn't want a fuss and just wants it to be like any other day but HEY! Whose going to listen to him, old misery guts. Lol!
He's never been ten pin bowling so this will be a fun time. NO doubt he will come home boasting of how expert he is....lol! I know him so well.
It's meant to be a decent weekend after all the gale force winds and rotten weather we have had lately so roll on the weekend.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend too.
God Bless
Jeanie xxx
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I love your photos. . .they are always always so beautiful.I want to sit on the bench in photo 91.Best Wishes to Brian on his 70th!
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The pictures were lovely. I have never been to the lakes.
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Happy Birthday Bryan..enjoy your day!!!! I am so happy to hear you are in such good spirits and feeling so good - that is wonderful! Your photos are always a pleasure to see, I love seeing your fairytale land ~ gorgeous.
xxx
Lisa -
I'm so glad to hear that you are feeling better Jeannie. I cannot see your pictures so cannot comment, but I am sure they are quite lovely. I have been having a lot of problems with the pictures lately on my own journal so have given up for now. It is just not the same without pictures for me, and as a tasty picture of my days recipe is such an integral part of my entries each day I shall not be posting on AOL until it is sorted. In the meantime I am posting daily on my blogger account. I do hope you'll visit me there. I can remember when Todd and I went down to Devon it rained buckets the whole time we were there and we went on a walk down this hillside in the rain one day and I slipped in the mud and got it all over me. Ahh, the trials and tribulations of a rambler!
Have a wonderful Sunday!
Marie
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