Quiltingorchardist

 Here in NZ we are now in day 10 of  Covid level 4 lockdown.  Staying home the whole time has given me more incentive to get on with making ...

  Over the weekend I finished pruning the roses so late  blooms like this ended up in a vase inside.  ( Graham Thomas )   In the same vase a...

   A bright spot in the back garden ( on a dreary day ) as the first of 7 flowering cherries begins to blossom.  The Tuis and Wax eyes are v...

 I'm interrupting my previous theme to tell you about these books that I heartily recommend.  The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley.  Sadly...

 Basically it boils down to I don't want items that come in plastic or are over packaged. Paper bags and boxes / containers are fine. An...

 My little changes won't save the planet but my actions are the only ones I can change.  Where I go, how I go, what I buy, what I throw ...

 For the last 53 Years that we have been a household we have never had rubbish collection at our gate. Starting in July we are being forced ...

 On Saturday I went to the great New Zealand Quilt Show in Rotorua ( at the Energy Events Centre ).  My friend Jill drove a carload of us th...

  A Liquid Amber with seed pods. (On a neighbour's property.) There were also golden maples and pin oaks with great colour as I walked a...

   This fellow ( I think a Nursery web spider ) had to be taken outside. He was a fast mover and quite large.  This praying mantis came in o...

                                               Strange clouds at sunset.  Strange little capsicum folk inside the big capsicum when cut.    ...

 Yesterday I sat and completed my hand sewing project.  ( I copied a necklace I have with a dragonfly on it ) It is made of felt and hand st...

 Before I start on about the new projects I want to say when I finished my last post the rain was really starting to come down... It rained ...

 Sorry I've been a lazy blogger.  Yesterday when elder Grandson was here he picked these truss tomatoes from the plants in pots outside ...

  Sometimes plants really excel. Lilium Oriental -Zalmira is one of these.  Flowering  and perfume are larger and  stronger  than I expected...

  This year so far some of the smaller New Zealand Christmas Trees ( Pohutukawa ) seem to be the brightest.  This one in a neighbours drivew...

   Garden damage last evening during quite gusty winds. This flowering cherry will need quite a bit of repair to be safe again.   To save th...