winter time

It really is very cold. happy winter solstice :-)

when we rise, that's the time...

In the morning, when we rise, that's the time I love the best - to paraphrase Donovan x - we had a lovely slow Sunday morning after a crazy go fast Saturday. Today is the Queens birthday holiday, so one more day off work and school for us. These photos were all snapped within minutes of each other. It all started when a bird flew into our window and alerted scout's feline attention, then came my young ones breakfast requests, toast and butter, a baby chai and my old school favourite, apples with brown sugar and cinnamon. Happy birthday I x who turned 6 on Thursday - some pics of that soon xxxx.

fresh today

Winter is with us. Warming toes by the fire. A little red wine goes a long way. Spotting the prettiest drops of dew.

in hand

1. saturday fika, 2. Untitled, 3. Abbie Cornish, 4. Birds 2, 5. peachy..., 6. Rupert, 7. Spring in hand., 8. ., 9. Untitled

I have felt and found myself too busy to take photos in the last couple of weeks. Flickr once again provides a much needed photographic fix.

green and gold

Our old neighbourhood is an old neighbourhood and there are many well established frangipani trees in pink and yellow and a couple that are sunset orange. My girls came to know which ones flower early and late and which ones hold the most potent scent. Lemon trees are also plentiful and often growing near footpath fences, making it nice and easy to pick a few on your way home. A sweet little tin house has a row of them behind it's neat white picket fence. These lemons are nice and large and we all agreed were the smelliest and juiciest of them all. The new neighbourhood is a little thin on the frangipani (happily we have planted two of the best from the old neighbourhood here). Thankfully Lemons are in good supply. Over the summer I came across a little lot of land that was gifted to residents by the local council. It's a funny little lot that is neither playground or park. It doesn't even have a bench to rest on. What makes the lot a real find is the established lemon tree growing there with it's abundant ripening fruit. I have promised my little one lemon curd and lemon meringue. If anyone has any other ideas for lemons I would love to hear them.

good morning

I am slowly getting used to the light here in the new house. My little one with serious bed hair was entertained by her dancing shadow cast by the early autumn sun.

soft bright

My planned week of flowers on four leaves passed with only one post. I will store my floral shots away and wait a little while for the winter flowers to bloom and then start a week afresh. Happily we played and made this morning. Teddy bears on parade. The warm autumn sun shining through the windows, lighting up colours within the house. Little red beanie brighter than bright as if it had been hand coloured.

pretty pink, pretty blue

small flowers, so pretty close up. These are the first in a series of shots taken of various flowers and leaves today. This week will see a flourish of floral on four leaves:)

more making

making is a natural part of the girls day * more eggs are added to our growing fragile collection handy felt mobile phone cases by S hand inspiration here and there :)

sailor boy

folk valentines :)

collection

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happy

hmm what to make with yellow...... time to stock up the wool basket Finger knitting x pretty colours - even nicer fuzzy

special bread made by small hands to celebrate the autumn equinox

days are still long enough and mild enough to head out after school and work.

folk

1. fit, 2. String Game, 3. the beautiful sleep (far), 4. rose is a rose head band, 5. Untitled, 6. Tyler my Tyler. , 7. Untitled, 8. rose crown, 9. Untitled. Tonight while wandering around Flickr the fourth image caught my interest, and that was it, my old love of portraiture came back to me. Even though there is an illustration in the tile and one or two photos may not be strictly portraiture, this photo tile is a little celebration for an old love and (when it comes to photography) my first love.

Autumn, you're just in time

Ducks a flying and hearts a burning. The Adelaide Festival draws us out on a cool Sunday evening. A basket of trusty Autumn favourites gets a spot by our front door. Since seeing the film Julie and Julia our consumption of butter has gone up and the olive oil has barely made it out of the pantry. My daughter asked me to make the chocolate cake from the film. I found the recipe but making it would have required a good shop up to gather all of the ingredients. I went on the hunt for a more simple but still decadent recipe and found the perfect one from Leave room for dessert.....

the in between

Hello, how busy are the days! In between being out and about, at school and at work there are the in between times when the girls can make up there own games, I can wander (wonder) around with my camera, and we can think about what we we would like to do next, be it running a lazy finger along the spines in the bookshelf, baking a cake or making plans of some sort. These in between times are the times when I think about how quickly time passes, how the girls are growing and of all the things we enjoy together. Two baby teeth lost and two new adult teeth growing in their place x.