1. Happy Yorkshire Day.
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A very old applique that is still awaiting placement somewhere. |
This is a greeting to all my family and friends who reside there.
2. Horse's Birthday.
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OK, they are 2 ponies & I took these photos on Saturday where we spent a lovely afternoon with a friend and her foster grandchildren. More later in the post. |
3. Wattle or Arbour Day, depending on where you are.
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Wattle in bloom. |
4. A 50th birthday greeting for my cousin's daughter, who was the first great grandchild of my maternal grandfather, then along came my daughter to make 2 for him in the one year.
Now for some quirky bits'n'pieces from the end of July.
Two photos I snapped while we were cutting firewood at our friend's farm.
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A conical sort of toadstool. |
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A wee frog, some of which end up coming home with us in the wood. I rescue them and put them in the garden near our pond. |
A few from our garden.
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My Garrya which is looking gorgeous with its catkins. |
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It has been cool, but this is the first ice we've had on the pond on Saturday. |
Saturday afternoon saw us call at a friend's place and as I mentioned above her 2 grandies were there, so as it was one of our first sunny days in a while, we took the ponies from their paddock, gave them a brush, then out came the cart and she took each of them for a ride up and down the lane they live on. I'm being very good and will just show my friend making sure everything was right.
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J, pony and trap. |
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And I was being hassled by my favourite little girl. I've known her since she was a pup & I think I showed the 2 little dog coats I knitted a while ago and she was one of the recipients. |
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Gum blossom in J's garden, just coming into flower. |
Now for a little jaunt we took yesterday for some much promised photos of the daffodil fields that are just south of town. Each year the leased paddocks seem to change & it ends up a game of trying to spot where they are.
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Looking toward the hills. |
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You can see cattle being fed out on the hill in the distance and the odd white jonquil in among the yellow. |
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Looking another way and you can see more up and ready to open. |
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On the other side of the road and going up a hill with a couple of rows of white ones. |
I love seeing all these coming into bloom from mid July and expect the markets in Melbourne are now well stocked.
Further on we decided to do a round trip and a few photos follow of a view and the steepness of the countryside once in South Gippsland. There is a "very" bad photo to end this lot today and I'll explain in the caption.
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Can you see just how steep this hill is in the foreground and there is a tractor to the left in the far background. |
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Now for an explanation. Here we have a wombat nibbling on grass, but I was standing on a very precarious piece of ground, it was windy and I was cold and shivering by this time and just didn't manage to get a worthwhile photo, but here it is anyway. They are just so cute and I do love our native wildlife.
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OK, enough of my twaddle today and I had intentions of posting some quilt and crafty photos, but although I could share something, with having 2 partial days out and being somewhat cloudy today, I've not fancied trying to take the photos of 2 flimsies, so later this week, we'll do an update.
Have a great week all, take care and huggles from down under.