Art and things

Dear old Blogger has been doing some odd things recently, but today it will at least allow me to add photos - though not in the right order. Still, let's not look a gift horse, etc. 

So here's a photo of some nice Edinburgh weather, when I went up town to look at an exhibition of pictures which are at the bottom of this post. 

I've started my rainbowish quilt and have now completed the red row (which is now twice this length). The cutting-out messed with my head a bit at first but I think I'm now familiar with it. Famous last...

Yesterday Mr L was a bit under the weather with a bad cold, so I went alone by train to visit Son and family. Above, you'll see the sun setting on the way back over the bridge.

Here's Medium Granddaughter on a trapeze - and this might (or might not) be Small Grandson running back to queue up for another go. I think it's not actually him but another boy of similar size - but you get the idea. 

And this is the view from the bridge on the way to visiting them - in reverse order. 

But I don't suppose it matters.

It was a lovely day. 

Here are some watercolours that I really liked at the exhibition that I went to on my own earlier in the week. Mr L didn't come because of his cold. I'd have any of these on my wall: some pleasing birds and flowers here. 

Talking of cold - brrr. I like the shadows and the tracery of the branches. 

I really like the shadows on this one too, and the interesting angle. I'd love to own this. 

And these colours would look good on a quilt, don't you think? 

I don't know who painted any of them because I didn't buy a catalogue. 

There's an exhibition of Turner watercolours on at the moment in the same gallery, with a queue of over 2 hours to get in. I like Turner well enough - some of his paintings are a bit misty for my taste - but it was great just to walk past that queue and go to this exhibition instead. 

And that was my week. In reverse.