Friday, January 4, 2019

Flowers, of course! ~ Happy PPF~ a garden walk, raining lilly pillies and poppy seeds

Hello! 

First off, I'd like to show my entry in this week's Paint Party Friday.

I thought I'd try a simple cut and paste using a card I'd painted previously but wasn't quite happy with ... turns out it made great vase shapes lol!

A few abstracty flowers in inkpen, a dab of watercolour here and there and, my goodness, I was quite happy with the result and it kept me happily occupied for a while.

A card for a loved one that I'm happy to send.

I'm joining a very happy bunch of artists over at the Paint Party Friday blog and if you click on this PPF button below you'll be taken there to see such lovely creativity!

As we're expecting a hot day today... 40deg celcius plus (104F) - I decided to make sure that last night's watering hadn't dried out.  Took a few snaps around the garden as I strolled:










What a surprise when I reached the Lilly Pilly tree!  It was if it was snowing ... all the little tendrils were actually falling to the ground.  The bees were going bananas!!  
It was such an unusual sight and the first time in the ten years we've had this tree that I've actually noticed this action:


The bromeliad is flowering:

... and so is the grevillea:


Here's a shot of our Poppies as they were in November 2018:

I took a closeup of a spent poppy pod, there's always loveliness in the various stages of plants aren't there:

This morning I broke open one pod and look how many seeds came out!:


Well, I hope you each have (or have had) a really lovely day.  
Cheerio for now and thanks so kindly for joining me here, Sue xx

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

A wish for the new year

Hello!

Well, that year just flew by didn't it!

My wish is that each of us are able to pack as much happiness and kindness into this new year of 2019 as is possible.

Currently, some flowers just outside our back door are being so pretty - here they are:
A zinnia about to open



WA daisies 


Flowers in one of our windowboxes

 ~ thank you for visiting, 
see you soon at yours!  
Sue xx ~