It’s a dark, creepy, stormy night; there’s strange sounds in the woods. A howling echoes around the valley and a dragon glows mysteriously in our house …

Yes that’s right I, Tamsin, have returned to Witchy form (just for Halloween you realise). Here’s our pumpkin for 2007, simple but depicting an animal close to our hearts …

We’ve played the spooky music, carved the pumpkin and had a wonderful supper. Now it’s time for our late night witching walk; what strange creatures might we see? Well I leave that to your imagination, but here’s a clue that I prepared earlier …

Ancestor or self-portrait? What do you think? Ha, Ha, Haaaaa…

I have plenty of summery things that I still need to post but let’s have a post straight from today. After I’d had lunch I felt like some fruit for pudding so I went for a little wander around the farm & garden. Here’s what I collected:

So I had fresh raspberries (white & red) and blackberries. Autumn must be getting close, that said the apples & pears are still hard and the hazelnuts still soft, so there’s still some summer left

I like to draw horses and have been practicing quite a lot recently. I either use pencil & paper or I use the PC, often with Tux Paint.

When drawing by hand I use the ‘circle’ method to help me, as you can see in the picture below:

 Mare & Foal in Mountain Paddock

The next picture I did in Tux Paint:

Horse on Hot Day

I’d like to learn to paint horses too, but more drawing first I think.