This is me right now.
To be perfectly honest, I don’t even remember half the time!
I also spend a lot of time in my own head, but that doesn’t make for good viewing so here’s some photos from yesterday.
And my favourite flower right now. It’s a tea tree.
So much to wonder about and I find myself wondering a lot!
For example, these nests….a blackbird and a wattle bird.
I’m in awe of the crafting that goes into their construction using whatever happens to be at hand.
The bird world is loud and busy here as we speak. So much going on.
We know that hollows in trees are the preferred nesting site for many of our native birds but we’ve attached some of our own houses ( built by Sam ) in the Fairy Garden as an option. We love how they look no matter whether they get used or not.
Helen turned an unsightly depression in the garden that often filled with water into a Billabong. At least that’s what we’re calling it. It already had the plastic bottom in place so perhaps the previous owner had a little pond of some sort there originally. It dried up a few days ago so when that happens, it’ll just be the Dry Creek Bed.
Out and about.
A beautiful place of awe and wonder we recently visited.
Some steep steps to negotiate but oh so worth it.
The Stony Creek trestle bridge. This is a stop you in your tracks view when you first lay eyes on it. It is in between Lakes Entrance and Nowa Nowa. Built in 1916 and in service for 60 years. It is listed on the register of Historic Sites. Once again, the early engineering skills and resourcefulness of this amazing piece of architecture is truly something to behold.
Perhaps not quite on the same scale but magnificent just the same ( in our eyes anyway ), is our new garden table and bench seats all constructed using some recycled bridge timber rescued by Helen. David ( Helen’s Dad ) calls it our Last Supper table.
More constructions …..Bill has been lumber jacking on a grand scale. His woodpiles are a source of wonder. I counted ten of them today.
We’ve been picnicking and yabbying and collecting wood from the forest and beaching.
We’ve had some fencing done to keep Jack and Pearl contained and out of the driveway area. The cypress will gradually weather and become grey.
Artichokes….such a structural feature in the vegie patch, but how does one cook them?
We let Amy and Helen do that. Not sure what they did, but they were delicious. I think they’ve decided to leave the rest to look pretty.
Speaking of not sure, this mystery rose, recently planted out in the garden has fuelled great anticipation ( only for me by the way, don’t think anyone else even knows about it!)
Only because it has been floundering in the same pot for months even prior to us moving here. In fact I’m a bit surprised it even got to make the trip and wasn’t just discarded. It will be one that I have propagated from Frogpond that has never flowered.
On my book pile…
Photos of bits and pieces.
A few days ago, the roses were crisping up in the heat like nobody’s business.
A couple of days later, we had a thunderstorm that caused a deluge…
Today we’re back to rose petal sizzling day. Talk about extremes.
From yesterday.
They’re off to test their little camper out next weekend.
May be we don’t need to build an extension after all.
Mmmm, on second thoughts, yes we do!
Stay tuned for updates on both.
This will be us soon!
