*tea time

Yesterday I saw several brimstone butterflies on my walk. They looked so surreal bright in that still lifeless seeming landscape. Later in the forest I spotted first snowdrops! Finally!

As I am still not able to work in the garden, I use most of my time creating new illustrations and patterns. I'm quite behind with showing everything I made here on my blog.

Yoojin, a creative friend and former blogger, started a new blog called "paper pilea" where she shares her creative adventures and love for snail mail. Feel free to have a look!

And lastly, if I haven't mentioned it already, I created a new Instagram account for my illustration work, because I did not want to mix them with my analogue pictures.

Enjoy the last days of March!

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*mountain trip

The view over the mountains was so stunning,

and every day it looked a little different.

The trees were full of moss and lichen. I read that lichen are one of the most long-living beings on earth. They can become hundreds, yes even several thousand years old. Imagine this!

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*tulips & ice flowers

When the first tulips of the year are moving in, it means spring can't be far away anymore! I love all kind of spring flowers, right now I have a bunch of daffodils next to me on my desk :)

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*fairytale winter forest

This was such a neat and "uncluttered" forest,

it seemed so surreal somehow with the white ground and the spaces between the boles.

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*poppy and ladybugs

I enjoyed drawing these so much!

Hope you like them as well!

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*a lonely cloud

Soon the light will change

and the dark days will be hazy memories.

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*spring flowers

Right now it is snowing like crazy. I am at the point where I feel saturated with winter, especially after our mountain trip. Now I feel completely ready for the more outgoing seasons. Therefore I am drawing spring flowers and creating new patterns.

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*still winter

It's March already!

This February we had only a few days without snow. At the end of the month we experienced extreme temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees and freezing winds. There was a lot to celebrate – Birthdays of beloved ones, a newborn Baby in the family, my 11 year anniversary with Ronald and in two days is my own Birthday. It seems it will still be a wintery one and I can't come up with spring pictures yet, as we just returned from a trip to the Salzburger mountains where the snow was knee-high, the air crispy and the evenings cozy and calm. I did some more illustrations and had many nice ideas that I want to realize bit by bit.

I wish you a great start into the new month!

Until soon again!

PS: The bird on the second picture is a male pheasant. Pheasants look so clumsy when they fly, as if they crash into something any moment. Like every flight is a potential crash landing and when they run they look like a roadrunner, very funny animals!

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