"The breezes taste
Of apple peel.
The air is full
Of smells to feel-
Ripe fruit, old footballs,
Burning brush,
New books, erasers,
Chalk, and such.
The bee, his hive,
Well-honeyed hum,
And Mother cuts
Chrysanthemums.
Like plates washed clean
With suds, the days
Are polished with
A morning haze. "
- John Updike, September
We are not the only ones who harvest and get ready for the Winter months ahead our wildlife does too. I feed the birds in our garden all year as I believe it is as important in the Summer and Spring as it is the Winter months. The wildlife have family's to bring up and so I put food down for the busy parents who are gathering worms and other morsels for their young but need to eat themselves so I try and get high energy food for them. They soon get to know who feeds and my garden is always a hive of activity for them to munch.
I also then can get to sit quietly and sketch them. I have been filling vintage china teacups with fat and seed and hanging them in my pear tree... These have gone down a treat, also found next doors cat licking one as well !!!! The drawing on the left is the shape of cup that I have taken my inspiration from.
But this gave me a great design idea involving china and the little thrush that I feed and its lost feather I picked up......

I look forward to seeing the pair of robins who will soon appear as well and want to get some sketching done of those too for something for Christmas time stitchery. I love that the birds have started to trust me to the extent that they do not fly off if I go and sit in the garden and observe them. I also have a rascal of a squirrel who will practically eat from my hands now ( crazy animal person that I am)
I have drawn the design on linen and have cut out the fabrics to use but do not have an awful
lot to show you for a week or so...... Then it there will be some snippets for you. The little thrushes in our garden are going to be in a picture along with the little lost feather one left for me to pick up and that will be stitched into the picture with a few tiny stitches to keep it in place.......
Well I am away to my stitching and I hope you all have a wonderful day and Happy Stitching!
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