Well, maybe it's not... but there's a time for thought and a time for action, no? I don't seem to be able to get passed the thought stage these days.

My tracks are always muddy too! Hello back to both of you, and likewise *:)

Yes, I can see them in both too. It's not just the pattern that grabs me, but the texture too!

never go back to painting, or never can think too much?

I like the relationship this has with the image in the previous post of verdant moss across a bridge. All lovely!!!

My pleasure :)*

Although surrounded by jungle, and a million shades of green, THOSE greens just don't exist here. It's like Hookers Green, mixed with plenty of water, and and a peck of Payne's Grey... have always loved that class of green and love seeing it here.

It was asking to be done.

Grace, Point taken! Maybe I will ask my Dad (who lives in the UK).

Montse, Well today I AM stopping. I've had flu for the past I don't know how many weeks... and just when I start to feel better... my wholebody starts aching and I start sneezing!

Do you mean it's difficult to stop what you're doing... or difficult to stop once you do nothing? ;)

Don't know about you, but whenever I do nothing, I feel like I'm wasting precious time!

Good thinking! The problem is it's impossible to keep photographs here. They liquify!

Or r&b?... There were alot of beauitful blues and greens to see out there!

Yes, it's funny but I forget that doing this is an option here.

I have the feeling it might be more than a short one!

I can't even manage repetitive stitching right now! Sometimes one just can't keep "doing", and have to let it all wind down. As my father says, nothing in excess is good for you.

Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing what becomes of the idea, right now I don't have the time or creative energy to develop it, but am still rocking it through my mind when I finally get to stop at the end of the day.

...and still sometimes they are not ready to be born!

Oh that would be great if you could find a photo. i kind of have the feeling that I have seen an image of what you're refering to, although I cannot bring to mind the exact piece. many images have spoken to me since the idea first ocurred to me. each time compounding the idea itself. in my head i have a a file of these images, each which fits with the idea, although each perhaps in a different way, sometimes having shifted slightly the idea. one of those images was of a piece that you did, although i cannot remember what it was called or where you have it catalogued. and when i saw it, i stashed it in that file in my head. it is the corner of something. a fragment. the base cloth is a kind of logwood grey color and you have placed a nautral cloth over the top that looks like calico. then you have cut a very fine pattern, like a vine and the top layer is stitched. there is a fringe. i liked that piece alot! thanks for the nudge forward. i feel that rush, as though standing on the cliff edge having decided to dive off :) i think i might just try it. afterall, it's not like i am doing so well at getting on with all of the other things that i've started this year. i just have alot of work that keeps me from my idea. but stitch by stitch, is how a thing gets finished, right?