A Christmas Party

What a great night with friends.  The food was super-awsome!

November Garden 2011

The Rubarb

  

The seaside daisy

The humbled potato vine with it's new friends

My Corner Of The Earth in 2006

Sents of lavender and strawberries mingled with the early summer breeze.
I took a moment to rest from my lavender harvesting.

The cats still drink out of this blue watering can.  Snow peas were going nuts in this small garden bed.

Spring days

Spring day are all different. today 21 deg cec and sunny.  There is a sent in the air like warm greenery and golden light.
Tomatoes, snow peas, misuna, lettuces, basil, artichoke, strawberries, chard.

Moments. Autumn to Winter

A lovley moment after work on a Saturday morning

The rising sun sets the clouds on fire

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April 2011

Vespa walks through the pumpkin plants

March 2011

Bannana Bread

Made tomato sauce out of these

Feb 2011

early morning shot of veggies

Cherry tomatos

Vespa gets in the garden shot again

Back corner pumpkin plants

January 2011

Vespa at the corner of the veggie patch

abundance of strawberries

suculents on standby

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Green progress

Herb pot featured earlier post

Vespa sniffs plant

Hi 2011

Miss one and a half with her watering can on the 1.1.11

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.       Helen Keller

Prepare 2011

1000 steps Dandenong Ranges photo by Ern Mainka

As I said before, new years rock.  The year that was 2010 was indeed huge.  When I began this year I had been a mum for 6 months and being a mum has pretty much defined the year for me.  I've had some very low points and some very beautiful moments that filled my soul to the point of bursting its banks.  Now that my girl is a toddler there is so much energy about her. I marvel at how fast she is learning about her world.
The second half of 2010  began our "fun day", day or 2 that my husband and I get off work.  Yesterday was such a day.  We did the 1000 steps....whoah ! hard work but wonderful setting and a great way to recharge the soul.  We then hit our favourite cafe ...the smoothest coffee the most unexpected meals made from local produce.  Art, ambiance, a place where i feel most like myself apart from home.  I speak of Ripe in Sassafras.

Ripe Cafe

The year as a garden bed

just had a drink from the watering can

The Christmas season has been super and in a few days we will enter 2011.  I get a kick out of moving into a new year.  It's like preparing a fresh garden bed.  By the end of the year it will be full and abundant...but with what?  The key for me is mental preparation and organisation so i end up with a fruitful year and some great surprises thrown in.

Happy plants

The down pour across Victoria has been great for ou gardens and water catchments. This artichoke flower is HUGE.  The plants are looking a little triffid like, i think.  You can tell its part of the thissle family.  The plants have been put too close together so this end of Summer maybe Autumn i am going to make it my bussiness to move 2 of them and see how they go in a differnt location, give them a bit mor nutrition and i might get a better crop...we shall see.