Today I took Cosmo to work with me in the woods. I negotiated the entrance and surfacing works for the new car park and spent the whole day routing local school childrens designs onto tree stumps. As the nearest entrance was closed I only saw two people all day. One of them the imfamous Sid the Schnowser who I have spoken about on another blog.
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| Cosmo always on the look out for squirrels |
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| detail; toadstools |
I did as many as I could in one day, they dont take too long if your prepared to cut boldly. I sketched them on the stump first with a coloured pencil, the rather boldly cut out shapes. Often I could not see the junctions of the lines, and once or twice cut through bits where I would have rather not! The main toad stool above should have had the stalk reaching down to the ground but I cut it off my mistake as the whole thing was covered in saw dust. But you would have never even known that if I hadent have told you eh...! I liked designing things to fit in what are nearly circles, and these designs remind me of coins in some way. They are woodland currency depicting animals, insects, fungi and plants etc.
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| Highland Cattle in the padock nearby, |
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I have included a couple of owls as I have heard them at dusk walking Cosmo  |
The two above show different insects and the one on the left is the fiercest beetle I have ever seen!
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| Butterfly and leaves |
I really enjoyed my day, but Cosmo drank all the water and I was thirsty when I got back home after leaving through an extra gate that was not there when I arrived in the morning.
It seems all the permissions have been granted by authorities and conservation bodies including Natural England, so things should start happening over the rest of the spring and summer months.
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