Seeing trees

After visiting David Hockney's 'A Bigger Picture', it's like I am starting to see the bare branches of trees through his eyes, or at least as he presents them in oil, water colour or through an i-pad drawing. When I put my attention on the maze of finer twigs on the ends of branches it's like being back in the Royal Academy again.

Elderberries

The shiny purple bunches of elderberries hang on the tree and sparkle in the August sunshine. The birds just love them. Starlings, blue tits, collared doves and sparrows enjoy the natural feast. The goldfinches aren't interested at all. Maybe their beaks are too thin for this type of berry/seed or maybe they just don't like them, preferring to fight over sunflower hearts and nyger seeds.