Pencil drawings

Well just two. Impossible to photograph them. On the black and white drawing the head did not come out and on the colour pencil one, the legs did not come out and you can hardly see them. Never mind. I am too tired to take more photos so that will have to do. I do not want to be blamed if we miss the ferry tomorrow morning. My bags are packed and I am nearly ready to go. Bye for now.

Holy Week in Spain

Hi Victoria, Robert !

Going to Madrid was an impulsive decision. Peter wanted to go and I doubted whether we could get a room, since this is the time of the year when most people in Spain take their holidays and go out, but we were extremely lucky in getting a really nice one with a balcony overlooking the Neptune fountain and just a stone throw away from the Prado Museum. When we arrived to the hotel on Good Friday, there were blue barricades on both sides of the road and the crowds there were waiting to see the procession with the Christ pinned to the cross. It was only 3 p.m. and this procession was not going to be until 7 p.m. people were prepared to stand waiting for four hours to see this, but the best part of it was when finally 7 p.m. arrived and the procession was cancelled ! There was a lady who had come all the way from Ceuta to see this. I have no idea why, because Ceuta has their own noted Christ, with a real set of human hair and all.

The next day, we went to the Prado Museum to see a Victorian exhibition by the Pre-Raphaelite English painter called: ' The Sleeping Beauty ' by Sir Edmund Coley Burne-Jones. All of these paintings live in Puerto Rico, in the Ponce Museum so I am not likely to see them in England. There was also this huge painting about the death of King Arthur in Avalon. The theme was sleep, sweet dreams which was also associated with death in Victorian times. The roses, symbolised love survivimg death which was a recurrent theme in Rossetti's poems and paintings. Also there was the painting " Flaming June " by Lord Leighton. I enter the museum for free. Someone came to me, a complete stranger and gave me a visitor's badge. The badge allowed me to see all the exhibits including the Rembrandt one, so that was a real stroke of good luck. I think it was an angel who gave it to me. Most people do not normally make this kind of gesture.

Victoria's pictures from Antarctica

Robert, These are 4 of some of the wonderful pictures from Antarctica that Victoria took during her holiday there. I think the pictures of the penguins are really cute ! and the glaciers look like ice lollies or meringues on water.

Red Roses

Unfortunately, it doesn't register too well. The reds do not come as bright as the real picture and the mauves fail to appear. Never mind, this is my latest flower painting. If the real one was as ugly as the one that appears here, I would start again. The photo is very disappointing.