Candles & Cake

Au Revoir, Trees

Last look at the TreeProject seedlings in my back yard:

Then loaded into the car:

Those tiny ones at the front are the transplants. Some of them are starting to grow, but they are a long way behind those which haven't been disturbed. Perhaps sowing more seed would be a better idea than transplanting when you get failure to germinate?

Here they are after being dropped off in the next suburb. The landholder they were grown for is collecting several people's trees from this house on Saturday. It was interesting to compare mine with another grower's:

Mine are the ones on the right.

In a couple of weeks we will have a planting day, and it will be a chance to check up on some of last year's trees as well.

Fresh-Squeezed

Every morning since 24th June, my breakfast glass of juice has come from blood oranges which were on the tree 10 minutes earlier:

The taste is fantastic! It's a great start to the day. Sadly there are only enough oranges left on the tree for one more day of home-grown juice.

 The end of the day was not so great. While eating dinner I broke another piece off a tooth that I original broke in April. When I broke the first piece off, my dentist was closed for Easter and I had to wait a few days to get it seen to. This time there is a note on his door saying he is closed from today until the 4th September. Great timing!

Name That Food!

An Italian neighbour we had given some honey to brought around a chunk of dark-coloured, sweet, bread or cake made with our honey. I forgot to photograph it until there was only one piece left:

Apparently it is a very special dish usually only baked at Christmas time. The crust is so dark it looks burnt. The internal texture is like bread, but it is sweet like cake. Do you know what it is?

A Taste Of Spring

The sun shone, the air was mild, and the white jonquils and I thought spring had arrived:

But tomorrow's forecast includes rain, squalls and hail, so it seems we are wrong.

Judging By The Cover

If you can't judge a book by its cover, can you a magazine?

The newsagent has started sealing certain magazines in plastic. Doesn't the customer need to see what the patterns are? To see which patterns are in which sizes?

I usually buy the May issue of Burda, because it most often has stuff in it that I want to make. But I would like the opportunity to at least flick through before handing over $16. I suppose it is handy that the magazine takes three months to get to Australia, because by then the internet can tell me which patterns have been popular with northern hemisphere sewers. But once I got this one home and removed the plastic, I wasn't so sure it had many things in my size that I want to make.

Preserved

Tonight I entered what appears to be a not-terribly-interesting building from the street, and discovered this:

The domed ceiling of the 1891 banking chamber of what was the Commonwealth Bank of Australia building at 333 Collins St. The dome has been preserved within the modern building. That light through the skylights is not natural; there's a massive building above the dome now.

I don't know how I have never seen this before.