Walking, running, resting. We have been exploring the new neighbourhood. It is the hilliest place I have lived in and we are having fun going down hill to the river. My little one bolts along and has a growing collection of knee scuffs and scraps. Goodluck to all those little ones starting school for the first time this week x.
Wandering around food markets. Eating ice cream with red bean paste. Leaving plenty of cake batter on the beaters.
******THRIFTED TUESDAY - EARLY BIRD EDITION*********
It's great to be back!!! Illness, a house move and dial up have been enough to keep me away from
this space and from my treasured wanderings to others, and it was with anticipation that I put together these photos today. Thankyou for the lovely comments I received on my last short post, they were warmly appreciated x. I am all better now and things have settled on most fronts that I have found that time and energy are in good supply. I am looking forward to a new year of visual meanderings, visiting and discovering. On discovering, we have many thrift stores nearby. Already my older girl has began a happy relationship with our local Salvos volunteer who has been sourcing some great children's books for her.
I have a very healthy collection of flickr favourites. It is all too easy to spend an hour or two there. Here is just a small portion of them:
1. Hills Hoist, 2. yes., 3. wool, 4. 16 weeks & 6 days, 5. to all y'all, 6. at the blue door cafe, 7. Jen's cards, 8. L is for..., 9. adelaide's room, 10. feathers, 11. cold shoulder, 12. olga en mi cocina, 13. Foto alheia!, 14. red, 15. Too Shy No.3, 16. hootiecake
I have had some time to look back over the last few weeks. A good dose of pneumonia has kept me pretty much in bed and by myself much of the time with loved ones staying at a safe distance. We are also moving from our home of seven years in a couple of weekends and I have found myself feeling very retrospective and sentimental, which has prompted this pre-Christmas pictorial look back at some of my favourite photos from this space. Here is a little something that I came across this morning that brightened up my day: :) - oh what beautiful colours and patterns x
There is gold in them there hills! Just when I thought my thrift luck was at an all time low along came these New Zealand made finds. I love the sunny mustard leaf like patterns.
Pansy by me, nasturtium by i
Today was about flowers. My young one drew a beautiful flower garden that grew and grew as she took more paper off the roll and I pressed spring pansies and nasturtiums. Today felt bright after a week of rainy weather. 
The colour theme for today is cooling blue. I am always trying to catch birds in flight. Flying gulls and swallows are my favourites, with gulls being of course the easier to capture. This blue winter coat has a flying gull repeat pattern on the inside lining which I find very dear - will have to include a pic of that another time.
Yellow often pops up here and there on four leaves. This week I am setting myself the challenge of posting two photos each day on the theme of colour. The cross stitch is by my daughter x.
Wow, it feels like so long since my last post. Much has been going on but I have been taking few photos. I hope to remedy this when I have a week or so off for the school holidays I a weeks time. I have been enjoying the fun work of Stig Lindberg. There are lots of pics here> The above are from: 1. Ariadne Antikvariat 2. The light archive 3. True Up.
Warm sun on our shoulders, damp hair drying in the sun, picking flowers down low and overhead, no time to waste, garden play till late in the day.
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