My week is so full this week I’m pre doing some of my blog to link with Esther as I’m away from home every day this week.
Some weeks are red-letter weeks and some fly by and theres really nothing to write about, this week is the red-letter week for me. This morning Wednesday 20th for the first time my girlfriend and I meet up for our walk at 7.30am at the beach, first time for nearly 6 month. Life some times catches up with you. Well this morning was picture perfect
Is that not paradise?????
Looking North from the car. We walk from one end of the beach to the other and it takes us just over an hour, what more can you ask for!!!!!!
Looking South from the car where I parked it for breakfast.
As we did not see each other over Xmas as we usually do we gave each other our belated Xmas parcels, mine was a beautiful lacquered plate
Up close photo of the design on the lacquered tray and the lipstick. All I see when I look at the tray is a quilt block waiting to be made!!!!!!
can you not see a beautiful applique block there?????? Takeko also gave me a large bag of Japanese fabrics that made my mouth water!!!!!!
lacquered tray with lipstick and silk Japanese fabric piled up behind. How spoilt can you be?????
Yesterday was my red-letter day, I received Pam Hollands much awaited quilting book, I have watched this book grow over the last 4 years and to have it now in my hot hands is wonderful. I laughed my way through the story this morning while having breakfast on my own at the beach, what a wonderful book to read beside the sea!!!!!! finally I drolled over the quilt designs which all made me smile. I will try and upload photo’s of it tomorrow for any one who wants to see it and will tell you a little more about this delightful quilting book that has kept a smile on my face for the last 14hrs!!!!!!.
Close up of one of the dark dramatic silk fabrics, back ground is a dark chocolate colour, really jummy. It is like a batik dye process.
Then there is this delicate fragile piece of silk screen printed!!!!!!!
Flowering in my garden at present is the most beautiful exotic looking fungus
This is what the fungus looks like when it is sitting amongst the wet vegetation??????? SO delicate and fragile but has the most powerful revolting stench??????
but it stinks like a very very unclean pigsty!!!!!!! This time of the year they keep popping up in the wettest part of the garden and the smell is so bad I have to go out and pick it and encase it in 2 or 3 plastic bags to dispose of them,
Every fly for miles around can smell the terrible pungent smell from this fungus!!!!!
yet still the flies can smell it in the rubbish bin?????
On Sunday after-noon a bush turkey set a Lace Monitor
Lace Monitor around 1 1/2 metres long from nose to tip of tail.
up one of our trees just off the corner of the house, these are beautiful looking creatures we are so lucky to have such wildlife right on our doorsteps.
We have lots of green bird-wing caterpillars eating their way through our mandarin tree leaves at present, it is so lovely to see then evolve. Grass hoppers are fighting for the same leaves too, so I catch them and put them in a container then when I take one of the dogs for a walk I let them go a couple of 100 metres up the road!!!!!!
Hows this for a colour combination
Our flowers are weired and wonderful in the tropics!!!!!!!!!! the purple flower is coming off the pink flower????????
Last week there was only one flower around the Buddha now there are 5?????? I've tried to take a aerial view.
Managed to sew two head caps for this week for my DH, he likes to wear a skull
type hat
My DGD wearing one of the hats!!!!!!!!
so he does not get sun burnt, I make them out of my patchwork fabric and he needs several as he wears a clean one every day, that’s the limit of my sewing this week. I so wanted to finish Janet quilt top so I could sandwich it this week???????
This week the garden is teaming with wild life to day Tuesday I had 8 wood pigeons sitting in the tree just 5 metres from my computer desk, these are usually very shy birds but they just sat looking at me after eating the palm berries and watched the world go by for around 2 hrs. May be they are drugged from the berries???????
Womper pigeon It is all the colours of the rainbow and about 18inches high.
Womper Pigeon
My green birdwing caterpillars
Green Birdwing caterpillar about 3inches long.
are changing in to crystals now,
Caterpillar attaching it self to change in to a chrysalis
Chrysalis. In this photo you can see an ant on its back?
In this photo you can see the threads it has spun to attach it self from the side to the tree. They hang them selves under the leaves so to the naked eye they look like a leaf and are very very difficult to find.
Well if you are still reading you have good staying powers?????? Thanks for taking the time to read about a little of my beautiful world. Now off to upload this to Esther’s Blog http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com I’m going to make it on time this week!!!!!! Cheers ALL Glenda
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful part of the world with us, Glenda!
I have loved reading about all the creatures and flowers, and about your beautiful beach and Christmas present.
Another wonderful post from you. Oh a stinky flower LOL but the blue and pink on is gorgeous and the beach I could just be there all day long. It is -7 c here and windy and grey at the moment. Had to go to the dentist as I broke some enamel off a tooth. Boy it sucks to get old, always something. Hugs Bunny
Love the post! What beautiful beaches you have – it does look like paradise. And the flora and fauna – so different from ours and so amazing. Yes, I do see a applique block in that gorgeous lacquered tray. Look forward to it.
Love your blog this week! Gave me a much needed smile today.