untitled sunday

texture and warmth

jazz by I x

Yesterday we had our first spring swim. Outside the skies are blue, our streets are full of red Bottle Brush flowers and the birds are happy and busy. Inside I am noticing all of the autumunal colours and thinking of the coming warm and hot days.

faithfull

  Tuning into the ladies lately

blue for you

over the border

3 days wandering around Melbourne streets and laneways.

Treasured time with a dear friend and sweet bro.
P.S. visit Ms. Katiecrackernuts to read her interviews with some fellow bloggers.

 x

on my way



Almost time to leave tonight for a short solo trip to Melbourne for a dear friends birthday and to catch up with my lovey brother. My daughters sudden high temperature made my happy go luck step falter a little this morning and I began to wonder if I should leave her while she is feeling so poorly. But she has now perked up a little and I keep reminding myself that she will be happy with her dad and big sister while I am away and that it really is OK to miss one fever out of the many we have shared together. Let me know about your favourite Melbourne Haunts. So far Meet Me at Mikes and the NGV Vienna exhibition are on the card.

winter spring

Blossoming jasmine, magnolia and wattle, letting us know spring is close. Cuttings of jasmine by the front door and in the bedrooms. Sweet and woody smelling wattle - natures pom poms growing down by the river.

miss you

My daughter woke this morning to the sound of our lovely neighbours across the way moving out of their house. We have exchanged promises to visit, ah, but we still miss them dearly.

Hello saturday morning, my you are colourful

1. Studio view 2011!, 2. Budgie 3, 3. Colors, 4. 6 july, 5. holiday motel 3, 6. colored cardboard-box, 7. table {top view}, 8. Umbrella Print's trimmings pack, 9. studio view 2010!, 10. IMG_0355, 11. nyastrumpor, 12. Birds of a Feather ~ Quilt

girl


My daughter draws many pictures on the paint program. I am sure this one only took minutes to create but it has all of her flair and sense of composition.

"girl" by S.



today, last night

last night, ghostly branches against winters greyest skies

 

winter beach

A couple of days at the seaside. I found myself taking a couple of deep breaths and then without any thoughts of resistance found myself slowing down after weeks of activity and must do's. The days were misty, the seas were choppy and there was a king tide - the highest in 7 years we heard. In someplace there was no sand to walk on and the winter sun only showed itself once or twice. But we found many things to do and an ever so cozy place to have hot chocolates and a good glass or two of red wine. Just before we headed off the skies cleared and I took this gull picture. The sun followed us on the drive home.

today....

...eating fresh nashi pears...

...pj's till lunch ...

...cat watching sparrows outside our window...

...looking at pretty Olive Cotton photographs and thinking about the days of gelatin prints and darkrooms...

sunday morning

1. Untitled, 2. Untitled, 3. floating - book illustration, 4. a long and winding road, 5. the doors, 6. houses of Bryggen, 7. Suburb, 8. Crailsheimer Kitchen Set, 9. Watercolors

Hello holiday! One week home with the kids this week. Pancakes for breakfast and now off to the markets for the weekly shop up, camera in hand and a skip in my step. back later x

seems like old times

from Annie Hall