Hawthorn Scavenger Hunt

Hello there!!!

I am joining in with a lovely Scavenger Hunt hosted by Hawthorn Spellweaver at I live, I love, I craft, I am me...

Here's the list. You can go over and join the fun at her blog!

Feather:

 I saw this 3 shades of grey feather on the Saffron trail walk last Saturday.  It looked a bit ragged but still beautiful in my eyes. You can be scruffy and still beautiful, not dressed in the finest feathers!

Orange:

 These sweet potato crisps from Tyrells are delicious and a delightful orange colour. Makes them more healthy of course! My husband didn't get a look in. I hid these!

 Something Fresh:

Oh my! If you knew the amount of hours I spent squeezing oranges and lemons!  If you want to know WHY I was doing such a tiresome task, it was because we had an organisation called 'Conductive Music' in at school doing a music technology project with a class.  It involved connecting up pieces of fruit and veg to a makey-makey board and using the fruit as a sort of 'fruit piano' with an online keyboard.  I had to provide 20 oranges, 20 lemons, 2 potatoes, 20 carrots and 20 apples for the workshop which were then used a few times by 3 groups of kids from 2 classes.  I bought it from Lidl opposite school and in the time it took me to cross the road, I had lost the receipt (?!?!??!?!!) so I couldn't claim back (I didn't ask but I presume I couldn't without one. They're very strict!).  Thus, I was left with 100 pieces of fruit and veg which I was JOLLY WELL GOING TO REUSE since I had had to pay for it (AND I can't bear to chuck away anything without really trying to recycle or reuse!) . Thus my fridge was full of 20 lemons and oranges (carrots had been made into soup, apples into apple amber, potatoes donated to year 4 teacher) and I had to do something with them. I zested all 20 lemons and juiced them, then juiced about 14 of the oranges just using a handjuicer.  My wrists are really tired!!   But the fresh juice was amazing!

Horizon 1:

It's always exciting to see OSR on the horizon and even better, right in front of you!!! The joys of living CLOSER to the countryside with a husband who drives!

Horizon 2:

But even a less vivid horizon still has its beauty.  This was on the Saffron trail too getting close to Felsted!

Wet:

 This was our Easter Sunday walk in Haltwhistle.  We'd only been out for 10 minutes before it started pouring with rain.  The fields were rather wet and a tractor had been churning up this field.

 Luckily, when the sun shone again, it reflected onto the water and shone like gold!

The next day, on Easter Monday, we went to the Cheviots and climbed Windy Gyle where I took my first step into Scotland. It was also rather wet higher up but the views were great!

Sticks:

I couldn't seem to find any stick pictures so I found this picture from Easter Sunday and thought the large amount of branches are essentially uncut sticks. This was really hard to climb under!

Growing:

The flowers are growing beautifully by the gorgeous cafe!


Craft:

Made some cards over the holiday with some stars. My craft mainly consists of cards and the occasional brooch!

Memories:

I love blackbirds!  It all stems from this particularly virtuosic blackbird who suddenly started singing in my garden about 9 years ago. He had a particularly tuneful riff or little pattern that he repeated quite often, with other less memorable variants. I always knew when he was in the garden because I heard it.  He sang it every year for a few years.  From hearing that tune, I could always hear the blackbirds. My mum and I always imitated him.  Moving to this house, there are suddenly blackbirds.
Mum and I were gardening a few weeks ago and a blackbird was singing in the next garden. We sang back to him and he came and sat on the fence for about an hour along with a robin on the other side.  Now, he comes and sits on my blogging tree daily and sings to me (I like to think it's my own personal concert! How terribly egocentric!) and I sing back to him in imitation. I caught him on the branch in these pictures.

Own choice:

The final view of the Cheviots after our Windy Gyle walk- beautiful river meandering against a myriad shades of green!

Scavenger Hunts are great fun!!!

xx