It was such a surprise seeing this desert rose
suddenly coming into flower. With all
the rain they haven’t seemed very happy for some time, but obviously now we are
coming into the hot season all that has changed. And they created this beautiful flower.
Its so unusual to see water in the ponds this
time of year, but its really beautiful.
Especially as it supports a huge amount of bird life.
This, believe it or not, is how my new pillow
arrived today in its dehydrated state.
I had to take it out of all the wrapping and
leave it for a few hours until it puffed up into its final shape. I’d never experienced anything like it before
but apparently they send things like mattresses and duvets through the post
like this.
It’s a wonderful pillow that has had very good
effects on my neck that hurt when I woke up. Now it doesn’t hurt anymore.
Yesterday I picked some of these rosella which
is usually unheard of at this time of year.
We have picked very few this year and usually by this time they are
rather dry. Which was the case with
these.
Despite that we picked them but I realized
afterwards that I should have worn gloves.
Being dry the fruit has some rather penetrating hairs that stuck into my
fingers making them quite sore. Even as
I type this the next afternoon I can still feel the soreness. I presume they were going to be used either
for jam/syrup or dried to make tea.
This morning just as the sun was rising we went
and watered our recently planted fruit and forest trees at the end of Buddha
Garden.
There was a hazy morning light which made the
dew drops sparkle. It was magical.
This is what the top of one of our pineapples
looks like right now. I just love its
intricacy and beauty.
These are what our new variety of chillies look
like now. The bushes look as if they are
hung with very intensely colourful Christmas decorations.
