On my Craft Table

The bell rang at 2.30 p.m. Friday and school is out for two weeks!  We're going into them with sneezles and wheezles which I'm hoping will be gone very, very soon so that we can start to play and relax.  We always make a long wish list of things we want to do on our holidays;  delightfully simple things like baking, crafting, picnics, staying in pyjamas all day, watching movies, playing board games.  The girls and I have already had a mini crafting session with shipping tags and washi tape, making bookmarks.  Aren't they fun?

Chris and I had the opportunity of an hour-long walk along the Great Southern Rail Trail near Meeniyan yesterday while the girls were busy singing and dancing at rehearsals for a local production.  We found some beautiful horses, who came over for a chat and some grass from the other side of the fence.

And wondered how much mail they received?  And who wrote to them?!

I'm also hoping I can nab a bit of time to work on a few things that are taking my attention at the moment.  Notice it's not one project, I'm actually all over the place with lots of different things!

Enjoy your day, the school holidays, the week, the month of July!
Trudy

My Camera and I

Late last week, when there was a little window of opportunity and a whole lot of sun I jumped in the car and went in search of some solitude and photo-worthy scenery, so of course I headed south to Wilson's Promontory again, the southernmost point of Victoria.  In just over 30 minutes from our front door this is what I saw as I rounded a bend in the road of the National Park - a big, beautiful, breathtaking open space.

Tidal Overlook Walk appeared to be a relatively easy one.  The sign suggested it was a 20 minute walk of only one kilometre.  It looked quite easy and flat, and once I started walking I got lost in the sheer magic of my surroundings.  I didn't see a single person the entire time, and I was happy snapping away with my camera.  What I soon realised was that I was climbing up and up and more up!  And then even more.

I saw a very cute wallaby along the way and in my excitement to capture him (with my camera) I took a few fuzzy photos, but as he was quite prepared to stand still and look cute I calmed down and got my settings right.  And on I climbed.

These funny things, which for a strange reason reminded me of Ewoks from Star Wars were dotted throughout the bush.  When I saw them my imagination went running off on a very weird tangent and it got to the point that these bushy little plants were giving me the heebie-jeebies as I was imagining someone leaping out from one and scaring the pants off me, and there I was alone, no-one within coo-ee of me.  Sometimes it's best for me to put a lid on my imagination.  But come on, you can see what I mean ... can't you?!

At the top, after a fair amount of puffing and panting, and stopping under the pretext of taking another photo, the view made the entire walk worthwhile, because this is what I saw after ducking under another tree and winding my way around another rock.  Looking one way towards Squeaky Beach, and then the other towards Norman Bay.

And beautiful wildflowers everywhere.

Ahhhh, just what I needed.  I headed home rejuvenated, happy and with over 200 photos on the camera.  Sometimes it's nice to just sneak away and have some time with yourself.

Wishing you some quiet moments of reflection, without the scary looking plants.

Trudy

Millers Landing, The Prom

This morning at 6 o'clock the heavens opened up, and down came the rain, so I snuggled further down under the covers safe in the knowledge that the planned hike at The Prom with our local Cub group would be cancelled and I could languish in bed a little longer.  And then the sun came out ...

We did a relatively easy walk of a couple of kilometres each way to accommodate long and short legs, and children with boundless energy and out-of-condition parents (some, not all ... I'm talking about me here!!) and went to Millers Landing on Corner Inlet.

On our track we saw kangaroos and emus, and big, old banksia trees.  And at the end of our track we came to the mangroves and learned that this is the most southerly population of mangroves in the world!

It turned out to be the most perfect weather for our walk, and we ended with lunch on the picnic table, before heading home, feeling completely virtuous!!

Methinks a day of feet up and crafting tomorrow is in order.  What about you?  What plans do you have for your Sunday?

Don't forget to enter my giveaway (details two posts down).  Go on, don't be shy!

Bye, Trudy

Bushwalking

At the very end of our street, up a steep, steep hill that has you puffing and panting at the top, is a lovely nature reserve which is well deserving of a good explore on a sunny, autumn day at the end of the school holidays.

Moments into our walk we discovered a native resident across our path.  We literally stopped in our tracks and held our breaths until further investigation when we noticed our friend had legs ... not a snakey-snakey, phew.

On we trekked through the bush, sometimes staying on the tracks, sometimes going deep into the bush climbing over fallen trees or under scrub, this was not a relaxing, easy walk, this was a serious bush expedition.  We found lots of red mushrooms, a new water hole we'd never come across before and beautiful bottle brush.

Now it's ready, steady, go back to all the routines that a school term brings.

Hope you've had a lovely holiday, break, weekend!

See you soon,

Trudy