News & Updates from Christine Dixon · Page 11

Another photograph from my husband's walking holiday this month. These lovely sheep were in a field at Bratton Fleming in Devon. Don't know what the walkers were carrying in their rucksacks but it obviously looked or smelled like dinner to this crowd, as they all advanced to check them out.

Or maybe they just hadn't seen a friendly face all day.

So, last week I showed you a photograph of my husband on his walking/geocaching holiday, striding up a hill to a coastal path.

This is the view from around the bend at the top of the hill. It's called Heddon's Mouth and is on the north coast of Devon.

Aren't the colours just fabulous? - the corn coloured grassland, purple heather, green foliage, cliff drops and blue/green sea. We really do live in a beautiful country. Here's two of my card designs, currently on sale.

My husband is away on a walking and geocaching holiday in Devon and he sent me this picture of him on a coastal walk near Barnstable.

There he is, in the distance, striding up the path, but isn't the scenery just stunning?

This was part of a five mile geocache trail called Hunter's Hike. He loves the tough physical exercise but the funny thing is, he is about to round a bend in a few minutes and then spend 3 miles with wobbly knees as he doesn't like heights.

Around that bend the coastal path continues with sheer drops to the sea on the right hand side. Apparently his face was very white when he finished. Here's my two latest designs - beautiful young ladies with their dogs. Hope you like them.

You know how you sometimes drive along, come across roadworks and sit in a queue watching several safety clothed men seemingly doing little work?

Well, one of them stood so still, he became a scarecrow!

Tee hee - not really - but I had to admire the sense of humour of the person who made this wonderful chap.

Here's my two top selling designs. Hope you like them.

Here's a sample of this year's strawberry haul from my garden. I've put a pound coin in the picture so that you can see how large some of the fruits are.

I have some lovely flowers in my garden but I never tend them, except to remove any big weeds.

My passion is for growing fruit and veg and for preserving anything we can't eat fresh from the garden. So I freeze, preserve (jams and chutneys) and juice. There's only so many strawberries we can eat, so some have been frozen and we've had strawberry ice cream and lots of strawberry milk shakes.

In the fruit category, we've already had rhubarb and next there will be blueberries and raspberries, and later, greengages, plums, apples and pears.

The trees are full this year, so I'm going to be a busy girl! Here's two of my latest designs, one for Summer and one for Christmas.