Sunday, October 28, 2012

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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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

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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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Sunday, October 14, 2012

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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Friday, October 12, 2012

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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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Saturday, October 6, 2012

"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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