Flowers, foal and fantasy

New growth is appearing down the drive way as the tamarisk flowers and the ponegranite shows new leaves. Exciting times.
On one of my walks I came across this Banksia flowering, they really are this incredible colour and look stunning. Another one we planted between paddocks, this one has survived the droughts well.
This is the new little boy foaled on Saturday, we have another boy this morning, a bigger one by the cob stallion and from a part arab mare, but this little fellow is a Welsh Mountain and could well be a replacement for his sire who we lost last year. He will go grey eventually, see the rings around his eyes?
This mornings foal thought a post was his mother so there were a few fraught moments getting him to drink but he seems ok now, his mother is in the background of the foal photo, the one nearest to the fence..
These are the finished cupcakes which are now on their way to Gina Ferrari in the UK, not sure if she will like them but they were fun to do. Heavens postage has skyrocketed though, cost a small fortune to post them, might have been easier to just send the money.
and I have been playing around a bit with monoprinting, this is one of several I did yesterday. All to do with the class I am taking with Alisa Burke called Beneath the surface. Great fun to do.
Oh and I watched our Aussie girl Samantha Stoser take out the US tennis Open Championships this morning, finally she has made it through, what a girl, it is so long since we had an Australian girl at this standard and she has had a hard time getting there, so Congratulations!