bu-kurk!

our neighbour flew past to say hello!



she was a very welcome visitor and caused egg-streme egg-citement around here. jun was seriously shocked to see her appear outside his window, tigs super excited and full of a thousand questions, woo shouting and laughing with delight. even greg thought it was an interesting event. me, i was thrilled by her beauty and the chance to photograph her, liberated and off on her adventure to 'the other side'.
i felt very 'beatrix' as her story played out in my head.

her family retrieved her and her beautiful wings have now been clipped so she'll probably not be here for a while, but i'm glad she won't get 'lost' on the roads around here. i rather like her and her sister's gentle clucking as they go about their day over the fence.

frozen focus

my little storm-chaser, couldn't wait to get collecting 'samples'.
i love (and sometimes get frustrated) that tigs just doesn't rush, even in the middle of a hailstorm.

call me irresponsible for letting him go out in the hail,
but i remember being able to do similar things when i was a little girl
and loving the exhilaration and excitement of the 'out of the ordinary'.

he rushed inside for hot chocolate!

the birds

seems to be a recurring theme around here.
first henny-penny and now ducky-lucky, quacking like fury on our roof. heaven forbid we end up with goosey-loosey or worse foxy-loxy.

spring showers

showers of ice, that is!



these pics hot off the press. the photos don't really show the extent of the white that covered our little house.

the lavender was was dressed in tiny crystal balls, i hope you can see it in the close-up. each little hailstone rested in the 'cup' of a bud.

so little ...

so sweet ...

so unusual!


so mean, mama!

she really is a dear, darling little girl and we are so happy she is our daughter.

(now bite your tongue and don't say any more emma! )

a night to remember

such a lovely evening with good friends.

delicious barbie.  woo is a complete carnivore, much to her vegetarian mother's horror, and scoffed chevapi. 

well, hello there ...

it's been a while, quite a while.
we've had school holidays.
and illness throughout the our little family with tigs dropping first - it lasted two weeks (cruelly taking up the whole first week of the hols), followed by greg (who was bed ridden for four days with temperatures like tiggy's) and just when i thought woo had thankfully escaped it, she and i finally caved and followed the others.

uggh! please remind me next year to get. my. flu. shot!

anyway we are all mended and back to a normal life (although greg would beg to differ) and back to the blog. he did, however, show surprisingly generous support for my blog ramblings by driving off course (he really did veer off the male a-to-b programming) and chased this stunning, gorgeous full, double rainbow until there were no power lines in the shot. just for me! sweet hey?
and now i can share it with you and keep it for posterity.

click the pics and see the radiant arc it in all it's glory.

see you soon, i hope.
e x