Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts

Sunday, May 10, 2020

~ Some flowers for today ~

Hello!

There's nearly nothing nicer than sharing flowers is there.  Be they fresh ones, photos of them, paintings or even catching a whiff of a scent of one.... sending most of those out to wherever they may land:
Another of my waterbowls with sweet and shy native violets

Freesias resting on one of my Mum's beautifully worked cushions.
I'm so glad I took this photo years ago as the actual cushion has disintegrated with age and use... the magic of photos, it will live on

Some beauties... we once did some housesitting and there happened to be many roses growing.
I love this shot in the late afternoon light.

I'm sorry if I may have already shown this one in the past but its a favourite and seems to want to be shown again somehow


Kind wishes to each and every one of you xx

Sunday, April 12, 2020

A Garden Wander and then back to Painting ~

Hello!

Thought I'd have a wander through the garden earlier today and share the pretty things going on in it.

Hope all's going well with everyone.  Its been nice to see all the different things you're doing to pass the time in isolation... sewing, baking, painting and clearing out drawers and cupboards, sorting photos.
(I've been a silent visitor over this past while ... lol, unusual for me to be a bit lost for words but as I say, it's been nice to visit even so 💝)

Having a garden is something I'm always grateful for.  I feel so much for those who don't.

Here's some photos in the order that I wandered....















strawberry flowers are so delicate and pretty I always think













Back to a painting I've started.  I had a thought to do dolphins underwater and this is as far as I've done.  I have lovely music playing as I paint, its very nice to listen to.

painting in bubbles ... I love doing bubbles!

not finished yet

I think this is a lot of pictures in one post but I couldn't decide which ones to take out [smiling]

Thank you for your visits always.  I'll see you over at yours.  Take care, all the best, Sue xx

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Back on track again ....

Hello!

Well, I can happily get back to a'blogging now.
and what better way to start than with a jar of daisies:

Sorry, I'd been a bit vague with my posts since Christmas.

Not only were there natural concerns about  (as with so many other folks) the fires and such, but a warning was passed around that potential looters were trawling the internet to glean information on what homes had been temporarily left vacant.

I felt it prudent to remove some of my posts.

Sure enough, there've been so many reports in the news of these low-lifes helping themselves to peoples' posessions.  Some homes were looted more than once as well (as if they didn't have enough to worry about!)   Enough said, I won't waste space on them, and don't intend to create discussion about them, but I did want to explain to those blogfriends I couldn't contact by email.

Final word though, which is that even though I removed my posts, and along with them your kind and considerate comments, they were all very much I appreciated. I have kept them all thanks to the comments section of blogger 💝♡💖😍

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Now on to better things.... I did a little run stroll, ok, a slow meander outside just before beginning this post, and here's the current state of the garden.  Hubby's vegies that, despite having to look after themselves for a time, are providing us with lots of good eating.




Kohl Rabi 


The zucchini kept growing and growing!
I think the pumpkin intends taking over the entire area lol!


The grapevines survived really well and are shaping up nicely....(all down to Hubby's work, I just take the photos ;D) )

A little arty interlude!  
A card I'd made for a dear one - excess paint paper, painted over with gold acrylic and then cut to gumleaf shapes glued to watercolour and ink branches.

This was another lovely surprise... I'd bought this tropical bromeliad last year just for the love of it, never thinking it would re-flower and survive our crazy weather.
Perhaps the heat combined with a little rain we've had made it think it was in the tropics momentarily!

The bees have found the flowering eucalypt in our backyard and are enjoying all the gum blossoms so much.
We stayed with one of our dear ones for a while and he cracked us up one evening as we were deciding what to have for dinner, as he commented "let's just go straight to dessert!!" Yay, and did we ever: 

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Well, its lovely to be back on track and blogging properly again. 
Cheerio from our place to yours
See you soon,
Sue xx 

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Flowers, Flowers, Flowers, Flowers !

Hello!

I'm so into flowers at the moment.

They're driving me to ... paint 😊

Can't resist taking photos of supermarket flowers, so I filled my latest header with them.

Below are some pics from around the garden and some paintings from over this past month, inspired by the joy of flowers, pure and simple.

May I include one of my favourite thoughts:
"We may think we are nurturing our garden but, of course, its our garden that is really nurturing us" - Jenny Uglow
 Our Grevillea "Robyn Gordon" in bud and,
below, in its full glory
Loving this time of year... its Grevillea Time!

Our 'Moonlight Grevillea'
I took this early morning and was amazed at the lighting and beautiful mauve colour that appeared.
I've done no more than the usual editing - a bit of contrast and sharpen.
Can't account for it and will happily enjoy this rather pretty occurrence




A bouquet for Mum






























~ Thanks for your visit.  
I shall be having a little break from posting, lots of things to catch up on, but will be popping in to say hi on yours every now and then.  
Go gently ...
See you back here in a while-ish, 
Sue xx ~