Art explosion!

After I came home, I got going with promoting my prints and cards which I had just had printed. They look great - I need to paint more. I went to a local art exhibition in Litchborough and sold cards from the vestry of the old stone church - very peaceful atmosphere and friendly, though not that lucrative - I spent the profits on lunch!

Let me know if you would like any prints or cards via Comments. This is 'My Village from the Stile', copyright AJH 2009.

A Happy Easter in the Chilterns

I stayed with at my sister's over Easter. She and her husband live in the middle of the Chiltern Hills, where they run a luxurious but inexpensive B&B in a little barn, surrounded by fields, beechwoods and swooping red kites, who nest opposite. It's very peaceful, as it's on top of a hill down a 'no through road'.

We walked to a view out over the escarpment that ends the Chilterns - an Iron age fort called 'Pulpit Hill', to see out over the Vale of Aylesbury (no town, just patchwork fields and sky). Cowslips and violets were growing everywhere in the chalk, and the cherries were just out. It was great to be able to go out on a walk with Susan (and more practice at outings for me!).