Another week nearly gone since I last posted. Gee, what have I done?
Let's have a peek at the garden.
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Julia's Rose & Eryngium in front of the blueberries. |
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Shasta Daisy. |
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A yellow Kangaroo Paw. I showed one of the large red ones back in December in a vase. |
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My pink Achillea is finally flowering. Brought it with me from Ballarat garden. |
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Our very small Hydrangea I planted last summer. Bluer than I thought. |
Although it's been hot, some parts of the garden aren't doing so bad after all. I'll admit that I've not planted anything in the veg garden, 😞, but as we were away about the time of getting it all ready, I'll wait till autumn now & start again then.
A DAY OUT.
As yesterday was a little cooler, we decided I needed some sea air (I really do crave it), after being cooped up in the house, for it seems likes weeks in the heat. I do get outside, but it's not the same as that salty fresh breeze you get off the water.
It was San Remo, which I've posted about before, but I did take some rather quirky photos & also got my face a little sun/wind burnt into the bargain. I've had fun with these snaps.
Looking out towards Phillip Island, (I've blogged about this a few times). The stairs on the far left go down to the beach, where we walked for a bit.
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Clammy like critters. Not sure what they are exactly. |
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More shells clinging to the rocks. |
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Interesting! Smooth one side & rough the other. |
Back along the path at the top of those stairs.
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A creeper spreading through the bushy shrubs with copious amounts of fluffy seedheads. It was quite amazing. |
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This was more of a vine, growing up some trees, with leathery leaves. |
I do love looking at flora and fauna. You may have noticed this before?
Back along the path I noticed the different colours of the water.
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It nearly looks like stripes. The colours were gorgeous, with the darker one actually being drifts of seaweed.
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We went back down the steps & walked back along the beach, where we saw these kite surfers.
Back home, what has been happening on the crafting front?
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Hubby's been busy with this lot.
All will be revealed when he's finished, but it's a beauty!!!!! |
I've not got very far with anything at the moment. Backing fabric still slouching over the quilting machine.
A half finished project is sitting on the floor so I could do some ironing.
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It's something to go with the needle and hook holders. |
Fabric from my stash, that I've been playing with. Some of it fat quarters I purchased many years ago from Keepsake Quilting in USA (mail order), which was a bit a 'thing' at the time. Their catalogues, with mouth-watering images of fabric, was a bit too much at times, and I relented & made several purchases, which I'm now trying to use. I've designed a small quilt for this lot on my Quilt Wizard program & hope to make a start this weekend. I'd like to think I could piece the top in that time, but it probably won't happen.
OK, one last photo. It's not the best, but I was trying so hard to get Buddy & her 4 little ones into the picture at one time. Birds do tend to flitter about, and being siblings (I think), they also started fighting, so I only captured four of them together.
I'll admit to feeding them, but I do love them coming, even if it gets extremely noisy at times.
Going now to serve up our tea & settle down for the night. Tomorrow we are off to help some car club friends to fix a hoist into their new shed. HE is "only" 80 years old & just built this shed, basically by himself to house & work on his collection of old cars. Yay, to him.
Take care all and hope I've not bored you too much.
Huggles, Susan.