Water

Bees on the pond plants, getting a drink on this hot day.

Cute

Flowers on one of my lillypillys (Syzygium australe).

Crepe Myrtle

A couple of my crepe myrtles have started flowering.

Camouflage

A grasshopper very well disguised as a gum leaf. I think it is one of the genera Goniaea - Gum Leaf Grasshoppers.


Found at our block at Lal Lal.

Popping Open

It used to be a eucalyptus, but now it is Corymbia ficifolia. My Red Flowering Gum is popping into flower.

Who Knew?

That watermelons start off hairy?

Christmas

Forgot to charge my camera batteries before the family Christmas lunch.


Only managed to get one shot of my sister and one niece.

Wild Cockies

Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos on a nature strip in the suburbs. What a great sight.

New Baby

A just-born baby Eucalyptus viminalis. Ten days after they were planted, the seedlings are appearing. One day we hope they will be 40-50 metres tall, but for now they are about 2mm across.

Waiting

Keeping occupied in the waiting area.

Colour

Beautiful leaf colours on one of my cannas "Tropicanna".

Flat

And it was a fairly new tyre, too.

Decorations

Made a few Christmas-tree decorations by origamiing some fabric.

Twins

Flowers on my Gazania "Mulberry Cream".

Loot

From the SCQuilters Christmas CBD get-together. I won the door prize - a calendar made by the wonderful Kate using photos from her recent trip to Canada. My Kris Kringle gift was a placemat made by Val. I feel very lucky.


Why does Blogger do this to some photos?

Cool Outing

Free tickets to see Pedro Almodovar's "Los abrazos rotos" (Broken Embraces), best seats in the air-conditioned cinema, what more could one want?

Posy

From the vegetable garden: onion, radish, scarlet runner bean and nasturtium flowers.

Obsession

Merle checks out the latest addition to the Christmas-carol-singing, stuffed animal collection. She is obsessed with them, and will climb inside cupboards looking for them.

Planting Seeds

To produce 336 Manna Gums (Eucalyptus viminalis) for a property burnt out in the fires last summer.

Scruff

The face of a dog who has been burying bones.

Rain

The Greatest Fabric News of 1933

A former shopfront near my house has the windows covered with newspaper. But not just any newspaper, 76-yr-old newspaper!


(Sorry about the sky reflections.) It would be interesting to do a comparison of the prices compared to wages. I think that relatively speaking, fabric may be cheaper now, but silk crepe de chene for 3/11 a yard (about 40c) does sound like a bargain!

Why I Love the Internet

1. Get inspired by something you see online at 10pm on a Sunday
2. Google and find a supplier nearly 2,000km away.
3. Order and have the goods in your hand by lunchtime Tuesday.

Quilters' Circle

Afternoon tea with some lovely people.

Hairy Flowers

Flowers on one of my succulents.

Getting it Together

Started putting all these blocks together.

Christmas Tat

This front yard is full of it!


The two giant non-inflated Santas have been lying on the ground for at least a week. I thought they were about to be inflated when I first saw them, but they stayed on the ground. Later I discovered that they are inflated (and illuminated) at night.

Entrance

Press the green button. ONLY ONCE - they don't like it if you get impatient. You don't hear anything from outside (although the buzzer is very loud inside) so you wonder if it is even working. Wait for someone to open the door.


Today I waited 10 minutes.

Appliqué

A bit of progress.

Summer

Dogs enjoying the first day of summer

Hello Metro

Took a train to check out Connex's replacement.


Wonder if the stolen supermarket trolley enjoyed the ride?

Fabric Origami

Made these cute little pouches for some gifts.

Wondering

What will happen when the last bolt gives way?


I have a feeling it will involve the electricity company coming out and disconnecting the power to the property, then the electrician moving the "point of attachment" to a different spot, then having the power re-connected. Then some repair work on the woodwork, and then some painting. It all sounds expensive.

Blue

Christmas is Coming

The Christmas tree guy at the end of my street opened for business.


And yes, there was more rain today.

Fish Pond

It is getting tricky to photograph the fish, because the plants are growing crazily. You can just see 3 here.

Birthday

My son's birthday.

Shopping in the City

Went to town to do some birthday shopping.

Rain

80mm of rain in the gauge.


Don't know why Blogger has tipped the photo on its side. All the water will run out!

Geelong

Visited the Geelong Patchwork & Quilters Guild biennial exhibition.

Succulent

A tiny flower on one of my succulents.

In the Mall

Every Thursday morning at about 9:30 I see this on my way to work.


Those who don't have to go to work enjoying a morning coffee in the mall.

Productive Sewing

Finished the garments I cut out 2 days ago.

Squares

So now I've got 80 of these.

Blackout

Cut out about 90 white triangles, and two whole garments, while waiting for the electricity to come back on. Then I sewed more triangles to the ones from the 12th.

Visiting

Computer games might be more interesting than visitors.

Goldfish

Got some friends for my remaining goldfish.


Original fish on the right, one of the new ones on the left.

Triangles

Chain-pieced some triangles to relax after work.


Later they will get a few other bits added to them, to make a block called "Leap frog" designed by Bonnie Hunter. One day they will be a quilt...

Organising

Organised my quilting fabric by colour.


There are more of some colours than I expected.

Overcoming the Block

For nearly a month I've done nothing on my Red Delicious quilt, because I couldn't get the thorns to work in this block.


Today I decided that my roses didn't have to have thorns.