Morning Surprises

This guy hopped across in front of me early this morning when I let the chooks out:

I'm not sure which of was more startled! 

In the orchard this slime mould was an interesting sight:

It is probably Dog Vomit Slime Mould.
 

Little Things

I lost track of recording things to be happy about this week. I was concentrating too much on the bleakness. But there were good things along the way.

Some nice blossom on Tuesday morning:

On Thursday I spotted an echidna beside the road and stopped to photograph it before it disappeared into the vegetation: 

On Friday the evening temperature was high enough (7 degrees, not very high!) for me to put out my moth light and see if any moths turned up. Several did.

I've spent a bit of time this week sorting out my walk-in wardrobe - rearranging the shelves, throwing out stuff, and boxing up stuff to send to the op-shop. At the moment it is still more chaos than organisation, as not everything that I pulled off the shelves has found its new place yet. Give it a few more days...

On Saturday I was glad I have another camera when my main one decided I needed more arty photos: 

That is two baby magpies in a tree. Not quite the result I wanted! The poor camera seems to have had it.
 

So here is some more new blossom this morning, taken with a different camera:

 Hope your week has been full of little drops of happiness.

Planning

 Finished making all the sets of triangles for the the current round of my Rajah Revisited quilt:

And then was very happy to find that me-from-some-years-ago had already printed off the correct number of foundations for the next-round-but-one, which I am not making according to the pattern:

I had thought there was some printing and calculating and cutting ahead of me, but it was already done!
 

Growth

 This part of the garden looked quite bright today: 

Compare with the same bed in May 2018:

The big rusty ball is still in there, but you have to be on the other side of the garden to see it now.

Twin Lotuses

 Spent a lovely afternoon sewing with a friend who has a matching machine: 

I made some more paper-foundation half-square triangles, which I'm doing in sets of 7 (see under needle on my machine in front).

I then laid out what I have so far:

Only 8 more sets of 7 to do for this first round of triangles.
 

 

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Spring!

 From the garden for the first day of spring:

 

Powerful

 A group of people working together to plant I'm not sure how many seedlings: 

This is a contribution to a restoration project on a former pine plantation, which is now part of the Clarkesdale Bird Sanctuary. 

We got them planted before lunch, then in the afternoon took a walk through parts of the property.

Highlight of the day was my first ever sighting of a powerful owl!

Wikipedia article on this species.