SkyWatch Friday - The heavens helped me celebrate

Last week around this time it was my birthday,

as the cricket score would say 78 not out.

Contrary to doctors' expectations,

I have outlived their predictions 

by eleven years and counting . . .

even the heavens seemed to celebrate 

a late  afternoon rainbow

spanning the farmyard

what better birthday present is there?

Actually there was, DD* took me for a picnic morning tea

at Jenkins Scrub where the wild orchids were in bloom

and while we wandered there

suddenly, our of the bushes came my son and his 

elder daughter who had flown over from Sydney

to surprise me.

I felt I was the luckiest of mortals to have 

so many dear ones around me.

Linking with

SkyWatch Friday

* DD = darling daughter