Look and see.

How's your week been?  

Two of my grandchildren had birthdays this week, 

so we have had some wonderful family time.

But in between I've been trying to see in a different way. 

Looking as if seeing things for the first time.

Appreciating patterns, shapes and the space between.

 It's surprising what you see when you look through different eyes, isn't it?

Bye for now

Moments of Calm

Well what a chaotic week it's been ~ one thing after another!

 But I'm not going to focus on that ~ what's the point? 

 Instead I'll show you (and me!) the good bits, the pieces of calm in between.

You'll notice we've had more frosty mornings

 and the land owner across the river has been burning off

 so the smoke has made for some interesting views.  

I noticed this 'still life' while I was weeding around a rose bush.

These leaves were floating on the water trough when I went to feed the chooks.

They look as though they are surrounded by a starry night sky!

These seed cases are from our local  Blackwood tree, an Acacia. I love the curls and squiggles!

Well it's done me good to see the bits of beauty 

that I would otherwise have forgotten amidst the chaos.

I hope you've had a week where you've noticed something special

even if it's been just in passing.  I'd love to hear about it!

bye for now

One week later....here I am!

Yes, thanks to all your encouragement in comments on my last post, I'm here a week later. 

 It's amazing how accountability helps to keep you on track  

Well, it works for me anyway!

What a week it's been.  The big story being that we had twins!  Alright then, it wasn't exactly WE, but one of our cows.  To cut a long story short...I was walking back from the cattle yards on dusk in the freezing cold, wind blowing half a gale. My eyes were drawn to ripples on the dam...not duck type ripples...no, they were bigger than that.  I went to investigate.  It was a calf close to the dam wall but bobbing in the water.  Yells, screams and next thing I know hubby is stripping off and heading into the freezing cold water, grabbing the little calf and pulling him up onto the bank. It was really hard work for him, and exhausting.  I ran home for old towels and, puffing and panting, we rubbed him down, leaving the head so that the mother would recognise the smell of her calf.
We were worried because it was so very cold, but nature is incredible and this tired little calf  was up and drinking from his Mum next morning, along with his sister. Unfortunately, no chance for photos, too much going on, but I do have one of the little fella a couple of days later.

This last photo is the dam at sunrise just a few days after the drama unfolded.  

All calm as if nothing had ever happened.  

This is how life is, one thing after another, 

up then down, crazy then calm, despair then delight.  

Just as it should be.

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I hope your week has been more up than down, more calm than crazy.  

Tell me about it.  I'd love to hear...

Bye for now 

Starting out once again.....

I seem to keep on starting
I guess it's better than stopping
  It's just that I start and stop
 and can't seem to keep going

You can see that my last few weeks

 have been full of sunshine and showers

just like any week

any lifetime really.

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How have you been going since the last time we met?

Would love to know. 

Nine months gone

Nine long months since I posted on this blog.

 I could have hatched a sweet baby in that time. 

Well, maybe not!
But I do have a third grand child and a garden full of flowers. 

  

The evening sun sets in my rather English garden

 amidst the Australian rain forest. 

White-headed pigeon makes a "slow deep 'wooop-wuk', second part a soft gulp" sound.

 It really does, because I hear it in the background as I hasten to catch images of penstemon, salvia, catnip and daisies as the sun goes down behind the hill after a hot summers day.

This pigeon  inhabits rain forest, scrub and gardens according to 

Simpson and Day's Field Guide to the Birds of Australia. 

It's right! 

Can you hear it's soft sound beneath the whirr of bees and the cicada's chatter?

So can I !  

Lovely to be back!  

Smell the beauty

TV's blaring......but all I can think of is these rock orchids (dendrobium speciosa)....their all-pervading fragrance...shape, colour..... glowing with the promise of Spring......

Forget the TV and all those ads, nature has the answer.

Do you have a favourite escape from the everyday?