This is the back of my house, the brick is so lovely and warm in the sunshine. The first set of windows is the lounge - sunshine streams in there making it cosy in the winter but a little too warm in the summer. Solution: pull the curtains closed. The other windows are my room.
This is half the yard, the prettier half! From where I took this picture, there is only the boundary fence behind me, so you're not missing anything. My little shed is full of junk and gardening gear, it really needs a good clear out.
Close-up of the pink tree, a Virgilia. It's flowering so profusely the branches have drooped very attractively. There will be a carpet of pink on the ground soon.
Part of my tiny vegetable patch - my pretend garden. Although I'm not an outdoorsey girl, I have a potter in my patch now and then. I've grown a few things here - lettuce, tomatoes, rainbow chard, golden zucchini, butter beans, shallots, garlic, broccoli, parsley, rosemary, strawberries, raspberries (that's what is in the middle of the shot). It
is deeply satisfying to use the produce I grow, I just don't have the passion to keep it up.
Scotty made it into the previous shot, so here's Raro. Whenever I'm outside - hanging out washing, watering, digging, picking - one or other of the cats will come to visit and be nosey! Raro quite often acts like she hasn't seen me for ages, even if it really was just a few moments ago. She's so sweet. She's more camera shy than Scotty - he seems to turn up whenever the camera is out
AND he will 'pose'. Raro just turns away. Ah well, I still love her anyway.
This is the back of my house, the brick is so lovely and warm in the sunshine. The first set of windows is the lounge - sunshine streams in there making it cosy in the winter but a little too warm in the summer. Solution: pull the curtains closed. The other windows are my room.
This is half the yard, the prettier half! From where I took this picture, there is only the boundary fence behind me, so you're not missing anything. My little shed is full of junk and gardening gear, it really needs a good clear out.
Close-up of the pink tree, a Virgilia. It's flowering so profusely the branches have drooped very attractively. There will be a carpet of pink on the ground soon.
Part of my tiny vegetable patch - my pretend garden. Although I'm not an outdoorsey girl, I have a potter in my patch now and then. I've grown a few things here - lettuce, tomatoes, rainbow chard, golden zucchini, butter beans, shallots, garlic, broccoli, parsley, rosemary, strawberries, raspberries (that's what is in the middle of the shot). It is deeply satisfying to use the produce I grow, I just don't have the passion to keep it up.
Scotty made it into the previous shot, so here's Raro. Whenever I'm outside - hanging out washing, watering, digging, picking - one or other of the cats will come to visit and be nosey! Raro quite often acts like she hasn't seen me for ages, even if it really was just a few moments ago. She's so sweet. She's more camera shy than Scotty - he seems to turn up whenever the camera is out AND he will 'pose'. Raro just turns away. Ah well, I still love her anyway.
4 comments:
Wow, Australia sure is beautiful!
(Wil saying that jokingly cause he knows how the Kiwis hate when people mistake them for Aussies.)
Ok, that was the best I could come up with, LOL.
Hi sis, I love that tree!! Would love one here. I miss little Miss Raro so very much!!
Love you sis
Pauline
Hi Diane, your garden is so neat and tidy - mine is like a bomb site! It looks lovely and I like your little veggie patch.
Thanks for your comments on the blog by the way, I am soooooo glad to be back in good spirits. xx
Hi, I found you through ChickenBlog. My brother and family live in Auckland, but they don't write a blog, so yours will be a kind of connection to them. I don't knit, do you post recipes? G'day!
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