TODAY'S FLOWERS - Changes

Leave home for four days to enjoy the warmth to the desert

return to transformations at home

amazing what a few drops of rain will do

my chrysanthemum thinks it is Mothers' Day already

the paddock below my garden shows the faintest 

touch of green and the Wild Wood

is changing into it's golden mantle

the stocks that have given me joy all summer

are more vibrant and have embraced a self seeded

ruby chard in their midst

snapdragons have been joined by a lonely broad bean 

and carpet of parsley

I tend to leave thing where God plants them

they grow much better there and save me the trouble

of getting them established elsewhere

While the other half of the world is bursting into spring,

I am thoroughly enjoying being in the gentle season of

of autumn, cooler temperatures, rain and comfort food.

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OUR WORLD - Gin & Tonic in the Outback

A rare opportunity to head to the Outback

and settle on the porch with a G&T

as the desert light changes

over the diggings

yes, I had a rare chance to go to Andamooka again

where there are opal diggings in all directions

we found a welcome visitor in the house

a stumpy tail lizard who hat made himself quite at home 

being afraid he would not find enough food and drink inside,

I picked him up and took him outside

getting on in years and lacking driving endurance

I seldom get a wonderful chance like this

but when I do, I jump at it

walking among the old diggings

hoping to pick up an opal chip or two

and wondering whether it was worth

digging this Great Wall of China

it looked somehow as though all this effort had been in vain

it was only 4 nights away, 

two of them on the road

but so well worth it

if only to be away from home for a bit

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OUR WORLD