broderie

miserable, wet and windy !

so often when i'm heading down to hobart, people say 'oh it will be cold and wet down there' and i defend the climate and say it is much better sunshine wise than melbourne, my home city. but today, my last sunday here for this trip, it is wild, wet, and windy and quite miserable really, but the ever changing river views are lovely none the less !

i'm beginning to gather my things together for the trip home and this little collection on the side table of my stuff was worth recording i thought, things gifted to me by some of my lovely friends and a couple i added myself

i think they know my colour choices quite well

i purchased this from one of the many lovely galleries at salamanca, love a face on things

out and about on the streets of hobart, here in cascade road, south hobart with mount wellington towering over the scene, roadworks are everywhere you go

love some of the hobart houses, lovely old weatherboards

loved this tree on the beautiful blue sky

and back to the river again, looking out to the mouth

the lettuce are growing well with foxgloves and pansies and so is the vegetable garden

and back to the river again

sunset the other night

some puchases from the japanese fabric shop in kingston beach, lovely blues

just some scrap bags of cottons and silks, so muh to choose from, the shop is called wafu works and they have an online store. jan whose business it is knows the people well that now live in my grandmothers house, we had a very interesting conversation

on my return from new norfolk yesterday i walked in the door to this lovely rainbow greeting me

then later

in the gloom of the evening one of my tanker friends were leaving after loading up in hobart, and this morning the one that was anchored in the river just off from here also left, they had moved up the river last night

love their colour in the fading light of a rainy day and also today in the middle of a rain shower on the river

a chair in the garden at hobart at HOBART COTTAGE, a good place to sit and think and contemplate, i've been doing lots of that

it has been a happy time, some of it spent with friends visiting from home and interstate at the same time as I have been here, some of it spent with family, but alot of it spent on my own

well not on my own

here just back from having a bath after last weekend getting very wet and muddy and off lead rolled in something at the beach that was very smelly, lovely dog and constant companion roly

i'm trying to pack again, all those things i brought down to do that i have not touched and the clothes, you know what its like

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home on wednesday ...................

 

 

 

time change and sailing by

the beginning of daylight saving in our part of the world, i enjoy the longer daylight hours in the evening. i'm still in hobart and today there has been an ever changing scene of yachts on the river, it has been a lovely calm day to watch !

the blossom has all gone replaced by fresh green leaves

some of my favourites are doing well here in the garden

tea and coffee and snacks have been had all over the place, here on boad the margate train which is the old tasman train .........

the tulips were lovely to enjoy

and also these daffodils

and this is a nice little corner of the garden being developed

a visitor yesterday, just a short stay !

it was a sailing sort of day today

it looks quite grey in these photos, but really wasn't

but coming back up the river it was very colourful with spinnakers

lots of beautiful views today

and someone else was watching too, before he went off for a walk with the neighbours and the usual 1/2 walk turned into 2 hours and he was returned looking very wet and smelly ! roly !

a beautiful sunset during the week

and another lovely rainbow

and a bit of adding to this, lots more shapes made

all for now, more gazing to be done !!!

 

away from home

i have been missing from these pages and september is gone and october has begun today and away from home i have not got my photo editing to play with and its time to do a post.

a few renovations going on here but the view though always changing is always here

the tall ships came and went sailing on the derwent river, what a great sight it was and so fortunate to be here at the right time

these pictures are of them leaving after the five day festival

this silverbeet as well as snow peas and spinach have been plentiful from the garden, so lovely to just step out riverside to pick some fresh produce, with all the sun and lots of rain at night everything is growing beautifully

and this was as the sun was rising one morning, not a sight is see very often !

and whose been sleeping in my chair

is that you roly ? is it you roly ? he was very sulky this day and was ignoring me and sat in my chair so i couldn't ............

i have been sewing all sorts of bits, no new projects really, just some new bits to add to those already started 

been a little shopping at the local shops by me and my friends who have come visiting, supporting the local retailers and just visiting some of the places i love here, living a simple life and spending a lot of time just staring, just being !

and this is a water colour of the general store and family home where my mother was born and grew up in at Kingston Beach here in Hobart Tasmania, sadly it is no longer standing, pulled down and replaced by an ugly concrete building.

be back soonish !