Summer's Coming!

You can feel the warmth in the air, see the haze in the sky and the new growth beginning in many of the plants. Summer is on its way, ready of not. The children love summer and can't wait. They look forward to  cooling off and playing in our backyard pool.

 Four of our children play cricket all through our long hot spring-summer eagerly anticipating each training session and game. They have worn a permanent dirt track through our back lawn where they run and practice bowling to their bat-wielding siblings (they have begun practicing already).

Spring and summer also mean family holidays at the grandparents who live by the sea. Lots of swimming, fishing and beach play.

Add to this Christmas, our 6 week long annual school holidays plus 9 out of 10 of our family birthdays fall through spring and summer and I guess there's much for the children to look forward to. Personally I'm not so keen on summer for the downsides of the above happenings and the long hot humid days and nights, yet each season has its own joys and pleasures to be savoured and lived fully. Do you have a favourite season?

Sharing at Live Every Moment: Summer.

Brightly Blooming

  

The dandelions look so bright and cheerful in this morning's sunshine! So do the little pak choi flowers.

Sharing at Little Somethings: Bright and Texture Thursday.

Bayside Walk

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Let me share a little more of our Sunny Sunday....... visiting with my parents-in-love.

I have never noticed this flower before

These are the "buds"

LOVE this grevillea, will try to find one to grow in our garden

Low tide at the bay, taken from the children's play park

Miss E and some of her sisters still love a play at the park

Banksia at the park, showing several stages of the flower

Rainbow Lorikeet feeding on nectar from another grevillea

Another previously unnoticed flower

Back again

Another bayside beauty, happily growing on the banks.

It was a lovely winter's walk, and today is just as sunny!


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Tiny!

A little pruning in the garden unexpectedly revealed this baby praying mantis. He was so tiny and soon jumped away into the bushes, not to be seen again. I love his delicate colour, yet like the black and white image too.

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Just Like Magic!

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12 noon

1 pm

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5 pm

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7 am - two days later - just like magic

Are any words needful....I think not.

I just love watching this sequence! Another of our Australian native everlasting daisies.
If you are interested you can learn more about these fascinating flowers and see a similar sequence showing the hourly opening of three more mature daisies and also a seven week sequence following the development of a single everlasting daisy. Have a lovely day!

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