WRITING ADVICE: Note to self for 2018
SPEND MORE TIME AT DESK AND LESS TIME CHASING BUTTERFLIES
Tish Farrell
Writer on the Edge
WRITING ADVICE: Note to self for 2018
SPEND MORE TIME AT DESK AND LESS TIME CHASING BUTTERFLIES
Beautiful images, Tish 🙂
Incredible colours and need a lot of patience to capture them…
Thanks a lot for sharing and have a beautiful day 🙂
Hello, Sreejith. Long time no speak. Lovely to find your comment here 🙂
The year passed by was really a hard one and quite relieved to start the new year with a positive note 🙂
Sorry to hear last year was tough, Sreejith. Onwards and upwards with 2018.
They are all beautiful, but the first one is superb!
Many thanks 🙂
What a beauty.
We had a large mauve shrub of unknown species down the side of our old house in Chester and it always attracted Admirals and Peacocks.
That advice? Doesn’t work, does it? 🙂
Probably buddleia then, as in the pix of mauve flowers. They’re big straggly shrubs that grow like weeds and anywhere. In the summer the one in the allotment was filled with butterflies.
Nope. Don’t suppose I’ll take any notice of my own writing advice 😦
Chasing flutterbyes is best done at the desk anyway…
You make a very sound point there, Ron. Happy day to you!
Beautiful photos! Have a nice day!
Thank you, Adela.
Note to Tish: tear up that aforementioned note. I’m glad you’re chasing! 🙂
janet
Ha, Janet! Now you’re giving me permission to go play 🙂
Ordering you!! 🙂
Am getting right to it, m’am.
As you well should! 🙂
Marvellous images, Tish! Never see those butterflies here….
Thanks, Sue. I think they particularly like limestone areas, but they’re otherwise fairly common.
Oh, when I was younger, I saw them regularly, in large numbers. But no longer.
Oh no…pleas don’t stop. Love your photos.
It seems unlikely that I’ll stop, Beverly 🙂
Easier said than done, Tish. Sometimes butterflies are easier to chase than words. 🙂 🙂 And we’re all susceptible to a lovely photo or two.
Indeed they are, and often a much more satisfying capture. After one has racked one’s brain and come up with some very lumpy words 😦
Your photos are lovely – I am pleased that you stepped away from your desk and spent time with butterflies. 🙂
Thank you, Elaine. And while I’m here – hope all is going well with your new home and change of continents. So exciting.
It’s all going well so far and we are beginning to explore the area a little now. It’s exciting, but hard work to start with. 🙂
Finding the right balance between the two, Trish. GREAT SHOTS!
That is also a very wise remark 🙂
Wonderful photos but I’d tear up that note 🙂 Chasing butterflies is what writers do one way or another.
You are right of course, Suzanne 🙂
Good morning. When I was visiting a friend in Southfields/Wimbledon on Friday – in her sheltered, warm (yes the sun was shining) garden a butterfly came. It was such a lovely sight and a reminder of days to come. Janet 🙂
A very happy reminder!
Wonderful,Tish! Your lovely images and words put a big smile on my face this sunny morning.
Only last week I had a note in my hand:
“Realise what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.”
🙂
That’s a very fortuitous quote, Dina. Many thanks 🙂
🙂
Who can resist chasing butterflies Tish when they are so beautiful. And the pleasure of actually capturing a photo of one is very satisfying
And it takes so long!
They move so erratically too it can be quite frustrating, but oh the joy when you do get a good photo
No, I think that chasing butterflies… or at least enjoying them as they come to you is far preferable to writing… just the thoughts of one reader…
I always welcome your thoughts, Shimon 🙂
The Buddleia is living up to its name!
It is isn’t it 🙂
What an awful choice! I was going to say desert the desk and then I thought what pleasures that would deprive me of!
That leaves us both in a cleft stick then :):)
Stunning, Tish! I am astounded by the colours and how you’ve managed to catch them so beautifully!
Yes please, to the writing; don’t know about more time at the desk, though! Would not want to miss out on more butterfly shots!
Doubtless there will be more butterfly shots this summer 🙂