Halcyon Days

Halcyon Days by Jo Bradford

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It has been a fun week for the Poppytalk Gang as we celebrate summer colours week.  I have had a great time making new work especially for the occasion and including a few recent pictures from my back catalogue too.  Halcyon Days was a quick something I knocked up for Mondays Pink theme.  It has turned out to be something of an unexpected hit as it was selected to be an Utata Front Page this week.  What a lovely surprise :)  

Halcyon Days in now for sale in my Etsy shop

And my DaWanda Shop

xoxo

Pink Pleasure

Thanks to Poppytalk for featuring my photo on their blog this week :)

phoenix like

Original Thought by Jo Bradford

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Well I really thought I had killed my beloved Pinstripe Orchid when I moved recently. The poor thing must have hated the vibrations and winding country lanes in the back of the van... I guess it is no way for such a glorious creature to travel!!

Anyway, within 48 hours of moving she had dropped all of her flowers and was looking very sorry for herself. Thankfully, I can report that 8 weeks later, after a lot of gentle nurturing and coaxing (and a new sunny spot in the windowsill), she has produced a whole new stem of flower buds and the first three opened this week.... yeay!!

My beauty is back, long may she reign as queen of my houseplants

xxxxxx Hope by Jo Bradford

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Plum Perfect

{plum perfect by jo bradford}

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Happy Sunday!!

Whatever it is you are doing today...

I hope it's full of l♥ve, family and fun

xoxo

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This picture is todays brand new listing in the Green Island Studios Etsy shop.

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Crepuscular Rays

Spotlight by Jo Bradford

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It is interesting that the Ancient Greeks believed that sunbeams drew water into the sky (an early description of evaporation) and so they called this phenomena sun drawing water. Looking at this picture I took recently, you can see why they might have thought that!

These sunbeams are technically called Crepuscular rays. Rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky. These rays stream through gaps in clouds the columns of sunlit air are separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions. The name comes from their frequent occurrences during crepuscular hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the most obvious.

A World Where Dreams Are Real

A World Where Dreams Are Real by Jo Bradford

On my way home on Friday, I pulled over my car to make this picture, thinking all the while that it was the embodiment of those song lyrics from lod faves of mine, The Cure...

Enjoy.

"I lift my lips from kissing you

To touch the wind that whispers through

This twilight garden turns into

A world where dreams are real"

~This Twilight Garden - The Cure~

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A Thing Of Beauty

A Thing of Beauty by Jo Bradford

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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Its lovliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness, but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing..."
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Excerpt from "A Thing of Beauty" by John Keats