Yesterdays prep for teaching my art class tomorrow, our theme for this block is ‘Landmarks, signs and wonders’

Mixed media techniques are my go to when teaching as they allow for experiment, accident and play.

When I’m not clambering around medieval churches, I embroider strange things. Here’s one I just finished of the White Horse at Uffington - a prehistoric landmark cared for by the National Trust. I spent so much time here as a child and it’s always loomed large in my imagination.

Last night's sky at 10pm. I love this time of year #Shetland

Lovely day guiding pony tours #Shetland

Rare Enhydro Quartz contains over a hundred moving bubbles, each in a tiny cavity filled with ancient water.

Formed in a hydrothermal solution, water in some specimens have been preserved within crystals for millions of years,

📹Rocks for the Spirit

And on to a new project, just received - subfossils shells from Mauritius all with identical holes made by some sort of predator. However, there is no animal in Mauritius that could do that, so it must be an extinct predator: but what?
I do like a good mystery.

A lovely walk around st Ninian's Isle today #Shetland

A walk to the smuggler's cave #Shetland

“Nobody wants to hear about your special interest—” I do. Tell me how a person would become spaghetti-fied as she nears a black hole, or how “aardvark” is a Dutch word meaning “earthpig.” Life is endlessly fascinating and I think the happiest people are the voraciously curious.

The daylight extends a little each day. 10pm sky #Shetland