A cold walk

 
 
 
 

Max and I walked early this afternoon, we were supposed to have a sunny day but it has been cloudy all day.I went in to the market early this morning and bought a lovely primrose which is now sitting by the back door. It is rather lovely walking at the moment, not too wet and muddy but the smell of the smoke from the fire and the call of the currawongs, who only come down from the hills at this time of the year. The filly foals have all been weaned and have a large bale of hay to eat and walking back up to the house the trees have mostly lost their leaves so having to blow to clear them away is almost over. We have had such warm weather that the crab apple thinks it is time to flower which it isnt and the winter honeysuckle (woodbine) is also flowering, which it should be. Well I am going back to the fire to do a bit of knitting, it is cold out here with my computer.

a few bits and pieces.

 
 
 

It is still freezing cold, not quite a frost this morning but still 6degrees when I went in to shop at about 9.45 this morning. I spent most of the day in Victor, doing all the odd jobs and finally found a jacket that I think will be useful if we ever go away at the end of the year. While we were at Coffin Bay I made a few more little houses, they are such fun to make, I think a few more will be made in the next few months. I have been doing a lot more quiet stitching on this sun and moon stitchery and I think quite a lot more is still to be done. Although I have decided that I might like to make another cowl, I will see how things pan out, my hands are not working as I would like them to. Arthritis is a pain!! in more ways than one. Today would have been Stewies 18th Birthday, John and I collected some Banksias and took them up to his grave. I know I have shown this cupboard before, it was my mothers and after I took the photo I realised that the plate behind the girl with the fish was for the Queens Silver Jubilee. I have fun with this collection, they move around a bit, treasures from by gone years, collected on travels and made by me (the dolls). I am still feeling off with this wretched cold, and John is feeling even worse, we have had a few words, not something these days we tend to do, but when both of you are not up to par I suppose it happens. This is the start of a long week end, here in Oz the Queens Birthday week end, I think we will be trying to be a bit quiet and just get on with things, slowly!

Finally a walk at home

 
 
 

Well I lost a great post again, I am not going to repeat it, here is a precis. The grass is growing, the paddocks are green and Max and I had a long walk. This afternoon the sun came out! Lovely, but tonight I think we will have a frost and I have I hope brought in the pots that would be affected, just hope its not too servere. Yesterday was a trip to the dentist in Adelaide, we both have still got colds and are now feeling rather tired, not helped by having to negotiate with 2 dairy companies as to where we will send our milk, decisions may take longer than we had hoped. Still there have been lots of excitement with the passage of Venus and the Queen's Jubilee to watch on tv. More tv watching than I have done for ages.

Arid Lands Botanic Gardens at Pt Augusta

I have no idea what is happening, I keep losing the script and only get photos, we will try this. We called in here on our way home, quite a few years since we were last here and so many improvements. Around the interpretive centre there were lovely gardens full of birds, and the song of birds. They were not easy to see or photograph but I did get the one in the lower centre, a singing honey eater I think. There were also small gardens laid out using the arid land plants to show what could be done. They were really charming. Double click to enlarge. Here it is still cold and wet and miserable, going out is not much fun.

Coffin Bay

Interesting, I couldnt post any script on the last one, Basically what I said was that in the National Park we saw emu and the lovely plants, templetonia or parrot beak and the white melaleuca and then went out to the spectacular Golden Beach area looking back to the sandhills. The young kangaroo was in our back garden eating the lawn, we looked at each other and then off she hopped. The young 18 month old wombat was being hand rear4ed by the lass in the ral estate office, her mother had been killed by a car and this little one was tiny and hairless, so she has done a good job with her. Now we are really in winter, cold and pouring rain, ok inside, it is just when I have to go out and feed up it gets interesting.

Fauna and Flora

 
 
 
 
 
 

Venus Bay

Such a lovely place, a beautiful day too. We drove the 200 odd kms up the coast on Thursday.
The people we spoke to about Stewie were great and told us where to go to see where it had all happened.
On a day like this it was hard to imagine how awful it was on Easter Saturday.
I walked the 5km round trip and we could see how dangerous the waves would have been and how fast the tide would come in and out through the very narrow gap, it was a miracle any one survived.
Later we had lunch and spoke to the local store keeper who had organised the early search, the cliffs are limestone, full of cracks, sharp edges not a nice place.
I felt quite emotional but so glad I had been there to see it all. The photos just dont do it justice and I just wish I knew how to enlarge them.
We are now home, I have more lovely photos of the last few days.
I am terribly tired and this wretched cold is not helping.
Washing is being slowly done, and I am slowly trying to put stuff away and tidy up
Oh I think I know what to do, click html and not compose, hope this works!
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