MY WINTER GARDEN

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Ryunosuke Satoro

This will be my last post for a week or so as P:- and I are going down to Merry Beach for a few nights in our caravan. It's a bit crazy going in the middle of winter, but the South Coast of New South Wales is very beautiful at this time, and it is cheap.

My garden has yielded a few surprises. I spied these toadstools growing near some rock lilies. The large one is about the size of a saucer.

 

In the picture below you can see a third toadstool behind the first two.

 

I love toadstools. It is a shame that they last such a short time. I have no idea what these are but I shall try to find out.

 

The wattle in my garden is at its full blown best. It will be long gone by Wattle Day on the 1st September.

 

Wattle is the national flower of Australia. That is where our green and gold colours come from that we wear in international events.

 

There were a couple of callistemon sprouting from bare branches. 

Callistemon is also an Australian native.

The wind has brought down some pieces of old, twisty vines.

 

 

P:-) has a little trouble seeing the beauty in these old gnarly vines, but I love the way they have twisted around each other.

Interesting sites



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Click here to read about a couple of tiny houses. 

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This is a very strange Pied Piper Duck Show in Australia. I don't think I really approve of it, but click here to see some strange photographs and read about the show. 

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 Click here to read about the Faroe Islands 

HARBOR LUNCH

It is raining this evening and there is some fog up on the mountain.

View from my back room window

The weather doesn't look good for the weekend.

This morning I cut up some of my twisty old vines and put them around my fairy door.

I had just driven my car down the street this morning when I felt something moist near my ankle. I knew that feeling! It was a leech! I pulled over and parked. Sure enough when I checked that was what it was.A leech.  It must have come from my front garden when I had been doing some weeding. 

Leech near leg of glasses

I pulled it off my leg and threw it in a bowl I had on the seat of the car.

I was on my way into Belmore Basin, the little harbor in Wollongong to meet a friend for lunch.

We had coffee in the Nonabel Cafe in the complex in the left of the picture below.

 

My friend J and I usually meet every school holidays for lunch. As usual we had a very pleasant time. We usually talk on the phone a couple of times a week during term time. We met at church a few years ago and we are both teachers.