Good-bye June

Here we are at the end of the June already. 

At a sit and sew day I was handed some more blocks for the charity quilts. Most of them I could pass on to other people to turn into quilts, but I ended up with 10 blocks left over. I decided to make a few more myself to sew up just one more quilt. Here they are pinned up after I had made a few extras:

And here they are today, with still a few more required to make a quilt top:

I'm worried about that green one in the top corner. I don't think I can make look like it belongs. Perhaps I will end up with one block left over after all.

 

A few months ago it became obvious that this tree beside the garden-water tank had died:

The guy in the hi-vis vest is one of 2 men who came to take down the tree before it could fall and do a lot of expensive damage.

Not a job I would want! I couldn't even watch most of the time.

Fortunately the job was accomplished safely, with no damage to people or property. 

There's not a lot of colour in the garden at the moment. The last autumn leaf has fallen since I took this photo:

We haven't had enough frost yet to knock back the salvias, so this eastern spinebill is one of the birds still enjoying the nectar:

And the first of the bulbs are appearing:

Jonquils above, snowflakes below.

Happy end of the financial year!