art gesture sunday - week 43...

a collection of red books

their fore-edges incised

placed in a hole

and covered with wood chips

(well maybe not completely covered...)

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spring garden...

Although the calendar marks the beginning of spring on the 1st of September

spring doesn't really arrive here at the creek until sometime in October...

protea 

clematis

acanthus and borage (and garden statuary)

 sweet pea

 floribunda rose

in the raised beds the winter vege are coming to an end and setting seed 

- and bare beds wait for spring seeds to emerge

rather than waiting for the ground to warm up 
this year I'm raising many seeds like tomato, eggplant, chilli and capsicum
in pots on the verandah

we have made a start on a BIG new garden project
(more about this as it emerges)

and an old favourite bursts into leaf...

acer negundo 'kelly's gold'
gives a vibrant lime blast to the early spring garden



"If you have a garden and a library, 
you have everything you need. "

  Cicero 

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art gesture sunday - week 42...

 

 

'Australia: the Quiet Continent' 

by Douglas Pike

4L can of white paint

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art gesture sunday - week 41...

a wet week 

 Encyclopaedia Britannica and Sams Creek

 

small boot poised

a leap of knowledge

a leap of faith

(a leap of creek)

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snakes alive...

found

 beside the chook pen

a reminder to always keep your eyes open

safe inside the house a less deadly creature also keeps growing and growing....

(its now nudging just over 4m in length...) 

the long slow work passing in a purple haze....

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art gesture sunday - week 40...

ex-library novel from The Romance Book Club

handcut beetroot stamp 

beetroot juiced heart

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"Honey-honey, hold me, baby, ah-hah, honey-honey"

Meet our newest creek resident

Honey...

Honey is just 8 weeks old -
she's a yellow (aka cream) kelpie 

(yes there is such a thing..... I didn't know this until a few weeks ago!)

Honey was chosen this morning from a litter of 4 pups

and given her name by our sassy-boy 

to be his very own working dog

 it was love at first sight 

 first hugs in a new home

 first puppy meal made by sass

first sight of the other very big dogs of the creek

(oooooo GOODNESS!)

first hugs of reassurance

 first steps alone into a big new (slightly wet) world

 first sleep in a new home

(snuggled between sassy's boots on some of his old clothes

note the box decorations....) 

Hopefully this is the first day of a beautiful journey together

filled with ball games and frisbee and stick fetching

and bike rides and cow herding and doggie high jump

and swimming and running

and hugs and doggy kisses

welcome to the creek honey-honey

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