Brutkey

Helen Clayton
@helenclayton@mas.to
Photo of a small flock of Llanwenog sheep in a field of grass. The sheep have white fleeces with black faces and legs. The fleece comes down over their foreheads. They are all (well mostly, one or two aren’t paying attention) at the camera as they hope the camera person (me) is carrying food (I’m not). The autumn sun is on its way down casting a warm glow over the field and sheep. It also catches the large trees on the far side of the field to the left, now mostly bare of leaf. 45e5ca65912ed3bc.jpg Photo of a white goat standing on top of a roadside hedge bank, next to a large oak tree. They are looking directly at the camera, defiantly. In the field behind but out of view are half a dozen or so more goats and a flock of sheep. a8abbc483d8b1685.jpg Photo with mauve-blue harebells in the left foreground on a grassy hillside. The land slopes down ahead and to the right before rising up to a rounded hilltop, the site of an Iron Age hillfort. The hill is flanked on the right by a dense woodland. Just showing on the far right is a strip of very flat arable fields, light brown in colour, and a band of pale grey-blue sea above that. The sky is a hazy paler grey-blue. f4b0366b462e78ab.jpg Photo of a spotted flycatcher perched on a thin leafless branch against a clear blue sky. They have in their beak a large flying ant. The flycatcher is a light brown bird with a pale, streaky breast. 7966999a5309e1a5.jpeg Photo of the setting sun peeking from behind layers of cloud above the silhouette of a tree line. Golden sun beams radiate upwards illuminating clouds above. Towards the top of the frame is a thin sliver of blue sky. f22cf866f3012cf0.jpg Photo of a full moon low in the night sky above the silhouette of a line of trees. The lower half of the frame is black, fields in total darkness. On the right, in the foreground, is an oak tree also in silhouette. The sky is a mauve grey with bands of cloud which are pale in the glow of the moon but dark further up. Edit: And it’s not a creepy nun in the bottom right corner but a reflection in the window of a dressing gown hanging on the back of a door in the bedroom behind. e82f5160965fb46c.jpg A photo of a loaf cake with the end sliced off. It’s golden brown on the outside, with a yellow sponge interior flecked with green. Courgette, thyme and lemon drizzle cake. 395a8f763a7b97aa.jpg Photo of a bright pink mallow wort flower - trumpet shaped with bright green sepals. Two flowers in stages of opening and blurred blue cornflowers in the background. Also some small pale pink (silene I think) flowers below. 33518383415be8b6.jpg A photo of the purple trumpet flowers of purple viper’s bugloss with a carder bee which is about to take off after a feed. A huge courgette plant leaf is reaching across from the left. 4f23b0cc64da1357.jpg A photo of densely planted cornflowers in pinks, purples and classic blue (a few ‘weeds’ in there too). 56bfbacf19d07317.jpg