Seasonal printing and foraging

 New card printing...

Not just the C word.... there are nearly thirty other celebrations of light in different forms in the month that spans the solstice.

So I start on the equinox with a block that I've used already for my personal greetings cards a few years ago.

Now for the difficult job....creating others to go with it!! 

Back to being alone again...feels odd.

There is always plenty (too much!) to do.

I'll start on glaze rehydration today..that can sit and look after itself for a while....and also apple juicing. 

I collected what I could carry from a tree in the nature reserve...the ground was covered underneath the tree!  I hadn't seen much blossom in the spring, or growing fruit later on, but as it is now surrounded by other trees all the apples had grown at the top!!

It was good to have a conversation with three teen lads who were having a stroll around the reserve path. Showing them what was ripe, explaining why there weren't so many large apples and saying what I would make from them...juice, jelly, spread..maybe a pie...and they all tried eating a ripe apple. Even the one who wasn't keen on apples!