This is our home and I’ve begun decorating it for Christmas on the outside.
Category: At home
Getting ready for the ride
One of the great things about where we live is the number of bike tracks locally and a great mountain biking facility less than 10 mins drive away. My husband is a keen mountain biker and here he is getting ready for a ride.
Feijoa in flower
Well, we’ve come full circle and been in our home now over 12 months. I don’t know when this happened. I didn’t notice last week that flowers were forming but here they are, fully formed on our Feijoa tree. It produces an interesting fruit but it will be a couple of months at least before…
Miniscule Red Mushrooms
We’ve had a lot of rain this year, not just through Winter but also Spring. In fact, it’s the wettest it’s been since 1992, which was our first year in Melbourne. We’d wondered what we’d done, shifting to such a wet state. We weren’t to know Melbourne was about to suffer a drought, a long-lived…
Cocoon on a tree
No matter how many times I wander around our garden I’m always discovering something new. On the weekend I noticed a large cocoon on the side of a tree.
Abracadabra Rose
Here’s another rose from that same bush. Quite striking!
Project 52
Through the year I’ve participated in a couple of projects through the Australian Photography Forum at Flickr. One of those was a weekly project of the same subject, to see how it changed through the year. I chose our pergola in our garden. If you would like to see the set of photos then click…
Abracadabra Rose
This rose is unusual. The bush itself throws out different coloured roses, a variation of the dark red like this one through to yellow ones and then variegated in between. Really quite unusual. This was taken after a spring rain shower.
Odd man out
Close up of a Kookaburra
Different angle to what I normally get to take. This is on my property.
Someone was busy overnight
A couple of mornings ago, we woke up to fog and signs of a very busy night. Our fence posts were covered in cobwebs, as were many branches of our trees. And this perfect web highlighted by the early morning sun through the fog.
New rose
Now that summer is almost here our roses are coming out in full flower. They smell and look beatiful. This one was taken just after a rain shower.