Shadow Shot Sunday - November 27th, 2011

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Here's mine for today - 

Shadow Shot Sunday - October 30th, 2011

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Despite the need to be in a strange crouched position and crawling around near spiders and piles of dead leaves, getting these shadow shots was lots of fun.

  

Shadow Shot Sunday - October 2nd, 2011

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I enjoy watching the light play on these huge leaves which I can see through my kitchen window.  

Shadow Shot Sunday - September 25th, 2011

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There's something very calming about the search for shadows and the stillness required to capture them. I have been out in the garden this morning and took my shadow shots while there. I think a garden update post as well as one about all of the gorgeous flowers around the yard will be coming soon! 

Shadow Shot Sunday - September 18th, 2011

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Glorious sunshine and shadows here today! 

Shadow Shot Sunday - September 4th, 2011

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Just one shot from me today. I got my camera ready this morning for a great shadow shot and then the sun went behind the clouds and no more shadow... Here's a late afternoon one instead. 

Shadow Shot Sunday - August 28th, 2011

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This shadow shooting is rather addictive. Again it was too hard to stop at one. There are so many great shadows this morning. Here's a selection of the many I just took.

Shadow Shot Sunday - August 21st, 2011

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This week I couldn't stop at one. There were so many great shadows around the yard this morning. 

Shadow Shot Sunday - August 14th, 2011

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Sunday Scribblings - August 7th, 2011

I haven't participated in Sunday Scribblings for a while. It's good to be back. The prompt for this week is: pleasure. My offering is an adaptation of a couple of short pieces I wrote earlier this year. The pleasure of Sunday mornings. 


Sunday morning 


Window slightly ajar 
Light makes art on the screen 
My feet poke out 
From under sheets 
Tickled by a gentle breeze 
Outside - birds sing and squawk 
Sounds paint through my mind 
Thick blobs, blurred at the edges 
Trails of even spaced dots
In the lull I tune 
to the gentle, regular ticking 
of the clock 
A little slower than my heartbeat 
Cocooned between stretch and doze 
I ease my way 
into the day 

The July garden update

It's the last day of the month. Just enough time to squeeze in some news about what has been happening in my garden. I haven't done an update for a while. It was already the start of July when I realised I hadn't done an update for June. I did mean to do one a little late but that didn't happen. 


Things have been going along quite well in the garden despite little input from me in July. It has been reasonably wet so I haven't needed to water quite as much. A good thing or some of the plants would be exceptionally thirsty I think. I have planted some beetroot seedlings which seem to be growing very well. I look forward to trying out some salad, dip etc recipes in the not too distant future. Yum! You can see some of them in the next photo, amongst the grass and other weeds. 

I have quite a bit of silverbeet in one of the garden beds and it is very tall. I need to find some recipes soon I think! A little while ago I picked a lot of the rainbow silverbeet and made a very yummy side dish with pine nuts and raisins. It was very tasty and super healthy too I'm sure. Here is a link to the recipe I used. 

I have masses of parsley in the garden, both the Italian parsley which self seeded from last year and the parsley I rescued from Bunnings which certainly no longer needs rescuing! 

Some of the cabbage is getting eaten by snails. It is quite interesting how the different bugs will almost completely eat one plant and yet leave another nearby alone. The Kale is next to the cabbage and not touched at all. There are also some broccoli florets starting to form. The onions I planted a long time ago are getting bigger. The lettuce is still growing well and is the biggest lettuce I have ever seen! I also have lots of rocket in the garden at various stages of growth. The last photo below is of some flowers from one of the rocket plants which has gone to seed. I really like those flowers! I hope to get some time soon to do some caring for the garden and also get some more things planted. I guess it will soon be time to plant some summer crops. Tomatoes! Yum! 

Looking back through some of my posts too, I was amazed at how much my 'Magic Harvest' plants have grown. Maybe I should post some before and after pictures soon. 

and now I am actually posting this on the first day of August. With a teenager in the house there was strong competition for the computer and I lost so the post I started yesterday wasn't posted. 

Six Word Saturday - July 23rd, 2011

The beach is fun in winter. 

(this week's six words brought to you by Bri, age 10) 

We (myself, Alysha, Bri and one of Bri's friends) have enjoyed two visits to the beach in the last two days. Today we made a large sandturtle together. I took lots of great photos and planned to post them but unfortunately can't find the cord to connect the camera to the computer. I was annoyed when I discovered the camera had no memory card in it but there was enough internal memory to take quite a few shots. Oh well, maybe I will be able to post those photos soon. In the meantime, here are a few snaps I took with my phone. We really are lucky to live so close to such a gorgeous beach!