Puffin Watching -Original Painting June My nearest lily pond is

My nearest lily pond is in the formal gardens of nearby Cragside House

refined elegance and intelligence

A family fable to share- and a reminder that sometimes we take things for granted

this replica has some areas that have been  extrapolated

Puffin Watching -Original Painting June My nearest lily pond isThe title of this painting, "Puffin Watching" is deliberately ambiguous. Because while people are watching the puffins, those puffins are also watching us! It feels a comfortably relaxed reciprocal arrangement, in which both parties get to see the other, without too much stress or disruption. Listening to a podcast about puffins in Nova Scotia, Canada, the presenter mentioned that researchers there needed a bird hide or "blind" to get close enough to