Cranescape

It's funny what you notice when you are stuck in the morning traffic on the way to work.

Lately, especially when the sky has been so clear and blue, I have started noticing all of the cranes which are dotted along my route from Mt Lawley to West Perth so I took some photos yesterday as the traffic was particularly slow.

I'm not quite sure what the guy in the car behind me thought was going on as I leaned out the driver's window with my camera repeatedly, but he looked rather puzzled to say the least!

The Letter K

Knitting needles (of which I have a huge collection)

Kina shells from Papua New Guinea - historically used as a bride price

Kitchen scales

Out in the Garden

I have been madly watering my pomegranate and my lime tree and have been rewarded with lots of fruit.

It's fun watching the birds doing acrobatics trying to get the seeds out.

Just thinking about fresh limes makes me feel cooler - so that's a good thing in this never ending heatwave.

Unwrapped South Perth

It was absolutely meltingly hot at Unwrapped South Perth on Sunday.  Who on earth could have predicted several months ago when the event was being planned that it would still be 34C in the shade at the end of March?

Most of the stallholders (including me) ended up dismantling the walls of our lovely individual marquees in order to try and let the air circulate.

It was so hot I hardly dared move out of the shade into the sun so I only took one picture of my stall.

I still love being part of Unwrapped, as there is always such camaraderie between stallholders  - even when we are all melting with the heat.

Violas in Egg cups

As Unwrapped South Perth is only a few weeks before Easter this year I thought I would try and work with a bit of an Easter theme.

As well as planting violas in  miniature tea cups I have planted some in old egg cups as well.

and here are my tiny Easter nests.

Come along to Angelo Street, South Perth this Sunday afternoon and join us at Unwrapped.

Strolling around Albany

Strolling around Albany at the weekend I noticed that there is a lot of beautiful stonework which we don't see much of in Perth.

Unfortunately the art of stone wall building seems to be losing popularity, presumably due to the time-consuming nature of having to select each stone individually to make it all fit together.  It's a shame to think of such a wonderful skill disappearing.

The street light has obviously got absolutely nothing to do with stone walls but sometimes it's good to do something random!

Geese, The Oranje Tractor and the Supermoon

We were in Albany this weekend.  The weather was quite cloudy so I had to be quick to catch the supermoon in between the clouds.

We had lunch at a delightful place called The Oranje Tractor where everything is homegrown and homemade.  We arrived to the smell of freshly baked bread and watched the owner select the goodies for our platter from the beautifully tended herb and vegetable gardens that surround the property.

And these are my brother-in-law's geese who have a tendency to get very noisy in the middle of the night.