Garden flowers with cosmos, 1 April 2020

A wet day. Police are moving on even a woman sitting alone in the park. People are adopting animals to have more company at home. The tall cosmos plant grows beside the chicken yard. Sufi the white hen who has survived all the other chickens by being quiet and retiring, is trying to crow. Since the bully, the Rhode Island Red hen died she has been happily solitary, although she seems to have conversations with the water dragon who likes to sit fairly close beside her, as well as crested pigeons. The mixed grain and the kitchen scraps we give her seem to keep a whole ecology going.

Diana Wood Conroy 'Garden flowers with cosmos' Watercolour on Arches paper 15 x 21cm