Shells and Memories

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Shells from the beach... I love to relocate just some of them to our backyard:

The two shells on the left I can remember collecting from Wonga Beach in Far North Queensland...
Memories... we were in our bus, pulled in to a caravan park intending to stay one night, ended up staying a month.
Fresh coconuts, porpoises coming up to us as we fished by moonlight, trading my breadmaker bread for freshly caught fish, Fish-a-Que nights, birdcalls - all different, beautiful and exotic.
These shells are sweet memories of that lovely month

Beautiful memories of the joy of collecting shells with the littlies too.

Treasures!

I still have some of those same shells...
they're my keepers of sweet memories!

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From the verandah ~ Happy PPF!

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Here's my entry for this week's Paint Party Friday - where the happiest of artists gather, and everyone's welcome.

It's a little sketch I did while out on the verandah early the other morning, looking at the ferns and succulents growing below:

Titled: "Dragonfly Ornament"
Inkpen and watercolour pencils on paper

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It's a Nasturtium Kind of Day!

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A little Tuesday painting... as you'll see further down, the nasturtiums are going full steam ahead at our place:

Titled "Nasturtiums from my Garden"
Watercolour and inkpen on paper

Here's where the latest batch sit... right outside our back door.

Can't wait until the flower seeds start to bloom! 

Indulge me, ha ha, I love them!

Pretties on the weekend

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Water droplets on a plant... they're like little jewels:

Have a lovely weekend!
Sue xx

Nature ~ Happy PPF !

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Here's my entry in this week's Paint Party Friday - where the happiest of artists gather, and everyone's welcome.

It's been a while since I entered and it's nice doing so once more:

Titled "We can never have enough nature"
Watercolour and inkpen on paper

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Testing

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I'm probably quite behind the times, but I'm only now working out how to post from our android phone.

Sometimes, it will be more convenient.

This pic, which I took earlier today, is a little section on my rockwall garden as shown in the header. The flowers have opened up and are enjoying the sun. 

am having a bit of trouble with text  after a photo as phone is just a basic one and there's not enough room on the screen for the keyboard and the photo, so basically I can't see what  I'm typing, so will take that into account next time! thanks for your visit . Sue :D) xx 

Following the Bees...

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I do hope this finds everyone well and happy.

I'm sorry I missed your last post Jan of Welcome to My Thoughts blog.  I loved sharing with you over the past while.  I love your art and will enjoy visiting your silent blog, so I hope you see this.

Hubby keeps saying there's been no posts from me whenever he looks ... um, so I guess I better get myself into gear and do some!

Spring has surely sprung here in our neck of the woods. 
I've been enjoying following the bees and seeing what they get up to in our yard.
I got a real surprise when looking closely at the Pittosporum trees.  After years of having them, I'd never realised what pretty flowers they have and with such a delightful perfume.  Anyway, the bees obviously knew because they were in a feeding frenzy when I snapped some pics:

 ... and then there are our lavender pots.
I've had fun potting up new plants and the bees have really enjoyed each new flower as it opens.  They get a bit possessive and try to see me off with a few close "buzzes" but I told them quite firmly... my lavender - my rules...  which means I get to take photos in exchange for them getting lavender pollen!
So far the compromise seems to be working:

It always amazes me how much hard work goes into collecting pollen.
 

A final lavender pic:

... as can be seen in the background, the chooks aren't all that impressed with me snapping photos - it's food time for them, so I down camera and off into their yard.

Thanks kindly for visiting - see you at yours!