Grey skies and little gums

It's been freezing here, but the combination of grey skies and sunshine can look so wonderful. 

We love being able to see the weather in all it's glory out here on the farm.

 The new growth on the trees stands out in this photo. Bill seems to think that the tree we see through the rose arch is dead. If that is so, then we will have a whole new look to our borrowed landscape.
We've had to prop the bench up over the last few days to stop it falling over in the wind.
Bill has started rose pruning.  It's a huge task getting around to all of them, made slightly easier this year due to some early unexpected pruning of sorts!

And out the front, this clear yellow beauty is our first daffodil for the season. I also love those strong green spears and buds ready to burst.

Yesterday I began gently digging up the little eucalypt seedlings from the rubble that seem to have sprouted like nobody's business out there.
Who knows which tree they have come from....it'll probably be the giant one...and they'll all end up surviving and causing endless trouble in the future. Somehow all that doesn't seem relevant right now. I managed to collect over 90 yesterday and replanted them straight away into holes that Bill had dug for me around the boundary fence line.
To be perfectly honest, by the time I had finished I was starting to wonder whether I'd been lovingly tending weeds!!!! Time will tell. On second thoughts, after 3 hours I was probably just hungry!
I will get more tomorrow(when I can move again) and hope that the site preparation holds off a bit longer.

Some time over the weekend I also finished the blocks for Belle.
Now it's time to move the blocks around making sure that the colours are spread evenly and auditioning a suitable border. It all stays like this for a few days while I contemplate each arrangement.  Bill hates loves walking around it each day!

He thinks it'll make the perfect quilt for when he's sick! Mmm pretty busy I must admit, but that's how I wanted it to be. It needs that border for our eyes to settle on something.(quilt speak)
Having seen this photo on the big screen I will move those darker bits around again. It might have to stay there a bit longer.

I became a bit sidetracked when I decided to sew a granny square block for a bit of a change. Trouble was, it was too big for the rest of the blocks I had already made. ( I made an adjustment on my machine that wasn't necessary). 
.......so now it's a cushion.

And because I'd been poking around in the granny square box, I decided to try a cushion that I hadn't made before with some scraps from Bertie's quilt.

The strips are folded...ohh so easy.
And besides.... those Winter quilts needed cushions.

We are optimistic that Mum and Dad will continue to improve. We have left them by themselves for the first time in 9 weeks heaven forbid! They are probably very happy about that.

Can't wait to get out in our garden again.