Impatiently Waiting

I'm getting a little impatient!

It's been well over a month.

 I have 7 or 8 large camellia bushes in my yard and they are chockers with buds.

 I mean absolutely LOADED!

And they've been like that for over a month!

WHEN are they going to bloom???

I'm dying to know what colours they are.

I'm dying to take thousands of photos of my very own camellias.

C'mon precious, little buds!

Bloom!

Supermom

The Long Road to China

If I don't see you before, have a safe and happy Easter and remember the reason for the season...and it's not chocolate.

~ Ky x

Peace On Earth, otherwise known as Springvale Botanical Cemetary

Linking to Wordless Wednesday at Faith, Hope and a whole lotta Love photography.

~ Ky x



My garden needs some lovin'.

So you know that in the past week and a half we have moved house. It's one of my most unfavourite things to do! All the packing, cleaning, unpacking, purging, cleaning, decision making...it's the decision making that I dislike the most. It actually hurts my brain to have to make decisions about what to keep and what to throw out, give away, where to put everything, which cupboards, which rooms...blah, blah, blah....argh! I'm just sooooo over stuff!!!

Some of the front garden (neighbours house in the background). Notice there are TWO hydrangea in this garden? I've always wanted one of those and now I have two!

I'm completely off track now. What I really wanted to talk about is the garden that comes with living in this house. It's the most garden that I have ever had the pleasure of having to look after. It is, however, in need of some tender loving care. Especially the roses. I've never had roses before. I'm not too sure what to do with them. Maybe you can give me some tried and true advice on how to make them really pretty again.

What do I do?? What do I do?? Help!!!

We are also blessed with some fruit trees.

A giant lemon tree. Very exciting indeed given how expensive they are to buy in the shops.

A cherry tree that needs a bit of a prune.

A crooked apple tree.

One of the not yet ripe apples.

Monkey took it upon himself a couple of days ago to bring over a step ladder and pick some of the lower apples. Lets just say Mummy wasn't too happy about it.

A gigantic gardenia bush.

And some tree ferns next to the big, inground spa which I happened to be sitting in this morning while I had my morning cuppa. Bliss.

Those boards aren't staying either. We just haven't got a cover for it yet, so they are doing the job for now.

So, you can see the garden needs a bit of a prune here and there, but my biggest challenge is the roses. Actually, maybe my biggest challenge is trying to hang the washing on the clothesline.

Kidding! I haven't used it. It's being replaced tomorrow.

I should add that there is a blackberry bush climbing over the top of the fence behind the clothesline too. Yum!

Happy Australia Day to all my fellow Aussies!

Hope you're having a great day!

~ Ky x



The Lake House

This past week was the last week for my hubby's Christmas holidays. I'm really rather sad about it actually. We've had some great times over the past 3 weeks. It's gone so quickly and the real year is about to begin for us.

Of course we just had to spend a few days at the lake house. Why not? It's sitting there unoccupied and waiting to be filled with noise, fun and laughter. A friend and her 2 kids were able to come with us this time. It was sooo much fun!

We ate and played board games and went to the lake and into town for coffee. The kids had so much fun playing outside together on bikes and scooters and a skateboard.

The weather was perfect! It would have been so nice to stay a few days longer. There's always weekends though.

This is part of the view from the front verandah. We just sit out there and chat and enjoy the serenity.

This guy graced us with his presence after I put out some bread. My friend Ms M and I were only sitting about 1.5 metres away from him.

Photo taken by Danny

I thought this was a great photo and just had to put it into this post as part of our holiday photos.

Danny and Monkey practising shooting with the air pistol. Monkey thought it was the bees knees!

 Lake Eildon. Well a snippet of it anyway. It's a REALLY big lake and this is just the Gough's Bay bit of it.

Why is sitting by water so calming and relaxing?

He did not let go of Dad's hand.

Just messing about with the B&W function on the camera.

He noticed I was taking photos of him as he was walking out of the water, so he put on quite the display for me.

Cheeky Monkey!!!

This turned into...

...this.

Nice!

And some more. Note the really nice boat in the background.

How the other half live.

By that I mean the older people with grown up kids that they don't have to pay for anymore.

Aaaahhhh the serenity.

~ Ky x