Seed heads in winter

 

I am fascinated by seed heads and noticed these as I walked past the other day. It was just as the snow had begun to fall, and I thought they looked very wintery. These are the same ones I photographed last time, and I don't think they have decayed much, although they have lovely lacey patterns now.

Hydrangeas

 I was inspired by Diana Taylor's blog, Velvet Moth Studio , where she posted some great  photos of hydrangeas. I have been meaning to photograph these hydrangeas I see when walking near my house for a while. I thought they would have turned into full seed heads buy now and was surprised they still had so much colour.  The photos are arranged so they show progression to decay. I liked the holes in the second photo and the skeleton leaf in the third contrasted with the strong pink in the first.

Tag Tuesday-Seed heads

The theme for this week's Tag Tuesday 

is SEED HEADS. Those of you  who have been reading my blog for a while will know that I really like seed heads, and am delighted to see that Carolyn has chosen one of my favourite themes! I have decided to use some tags I made last year when I was exploring this theme. You can see my earlier post and a description of how I did the pieces on my blog  here. Just scroll down the page till you find the post  Seed heads-experiments in textiles dated 24/01/2012. If you click on the photos you can see the close ups.

I made four pieces from the same source photo, a collage made from snippets of voile, a  newspaper collage, a stitched combination of voile and newspaper and a stitched voile piece.