Over the fence roses ~ Floral Friday Fotos

We had a delightful elderly neighbour, who always encouraged me to pick any of her flowers (and lemons) I wished.  Some lovely conversations were had, over the fence, alongside her roses.

As it does, age caught up with our lovely neighbour and she passed on.  Her house was sold, but I'm fortunate in that the tradition of me doing a little bit of over-the-fence pruning is still ok.

I gathered these pretties just recently, and their intoxicating perfume filled our house for a week.

If you'd like to read a past post about our neighbour and her
garden, just click on this image.

~ Thank you for visiting my blog, either silently or by leaving a comment.  Cheers now :D) ~

Linking up with Nick for Floral Friday Fotos.  

Click on the image below if you'd like to see more 

beautiful florals:

Satin Bower Baby's Bathtime ~ Wild Bird Wednesday

Joining in with Stewart's Wild Bird Wednesday once again, after a long absence.

I'm thrilled to add my photos of a juvenile Satin Bower Bird having a bit of bathtime fun right outside our windows.

We love having the Bower Birds in our garden.  Their arrival on the verandah is never quiet - they land with a thump and have taken over a certain bowl that I keep full of water.

We were extra delighted this year as they chose to breed in our garden and so we had the fun of watching their young develop.  I was lucky enough to get some quick shots of this little one, out on its own and obviously doing a good job of getting cleaned up.

I feel a most stunning feature of theses birds are their piercing blue eyes.  Here's a shot I took years ago.

Click on this image if you'd like to see
an older post about these delightful birds.

 Thank you for your visit.

If you'd like to click on the image below and see what's happening over at Stewart's you can indulge your love of birds there too:

Boomerang Bags

Probably the last thing we want to think about is grocery shopping at this time, but I was quite taken by this idea at one of the shops in town recently:

so I chose one....

... think I'll remember!  Cheers now :D)

~ Thanks for your visit ~

A daisy kind of day

Enjoy!

Sometimes I've chosen the photos but can't decide on the words for posts, and that stops me posting. 

 So, my solution is to go with the concept of... no words needed... 

I've turned off the Comments too - if I can have a break from having to think of words, you can too ;D) 

Cheers now and thank you kindly for your visit xx

Christmas Wishes

🎅 From our home to yours, may Peace and Happiness be constants in your lives 🎄

Cheers!!  :D) xx

Sharing Happy Moments

Isn't it lovely to be able to share a good dose of  joy!  

One of our sweet granddaughters, N, has been busy creating smiles of joy on the faces of all who know her and we (MD and I) proudly share some photos with her kind permission.

Recently N graduated from Year 12 and here she is looking so very elegant and graceful:

💕 One of the things that impressed me on that special day was that, before she left home for her busy schedule of the Formal proceedings, N made a point of including a young girl who lives in the neighbourhood, in some of her photos.  The young girl was so shy, but absolutely thrilled to have her photo taken beside N. 

We've all had those shy moments at some point in our lives haven't we... kindness always begets kindness 💕

Those who have been following my blog, may recall I posted over two years ago of N's generosity in donating a length of her hair to be used in the making of real-hair wigs for women with cancer. 

Here's N with her donation back then:

Now, with a lot of hair-growing since,  N decided to add some colour to her life in this most gorgeous way.  Again, her joyous attitude to life is infectious!

We love it Dear N... 

enjoy your beautiful long blue hair... can imagine it swirling around  :D)

~ Cheerio for now, thank you for taking the time to read this post.  

May you experience unexpected kindnesses in your life ~

... but first, there's peas followed by lizards

⏩ Lizard alert a bit further down this post,

but first, there's peas.... beautiful homegrown peas, straight from My Darling's first harvest:

I couldn't resist playing around with them

 before they went into a stir-fry, yummo 😋

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Following on from my previous post, Jenny Wolf asked if the blue tongue lizard's tongue is really blue, so I dug out some photos I took last year:

These were taken through our kitchen window and aren't as sharp as might be, but, there's that incredible blue tongue!

Wishing everyone lots of good times, and 

Cheerio for now :D)

Back on deck....

Hello there,

Where to start?  I'm rusty !!

Been away a long time and the only way I can sum up the reasons for my absence is to quote Miranda Hart when she says "Life, eh?"  

The old brain cogs took a little while to work out how to drive this blog posting again - it does help if passwords are kept to hand, for one thing ;D)

Anyway, here we are and I hope that all is well with you out there. So, off I go ....

We're enjoying the approach of Summer... lots of sunny days but not the heat.  The grass has all just been mowed so the Blackbirds are out pecking around finding little treats for their babies:

Our resident Blue Tongue Lizard is also out and about taking in the sun - but not as actively as the Blackbirds:

She/he has become so tame that as long as we walk slowly past her she'll stay put.  I was an arm's length away for this photo today.

Painting is still one of my favourite hobbies and I'll include a few of my efforts.  I enjoy painting cards for the family - in fact, I thoroughly enjoy it. It's nice to add that personal touch.

and finally, the painting I'd started  (see this post) before I abandoned my poor blog:

Cheerio for now and thanks for your visit :D)