Quiltingorchardist

 All week I have been doing short walks to help my back. I hurt it last weekend. Walking did not hurt it . Getting up after sitting did.  To...

 It must be Spring now as a whole month has gone by.( it's September half way gone ).  Iceland Poppy faces are fleeting as Spring winds ...

 Lots of frosty  mornings. Not quite Spring yet. Many signs of it with daffodils,  cherry blossom, daphne ,Pieris and  Freesias ( what a per...

 Last Tuesday the winds were as high as I have experienced here. Our power went out before 5pm and didn't come back on till nearly 8pm. ...

 Yesterday at Patchwork and Quilting group I won the raffle. We all buy tickets and the money goes towards the rental on the building we use...

   ( click to enlarge if you can't read it )  Not long now till our Exhibition. With Covid we have missed having one, so some ladies hav...

Vireya Rhododendron - Red Mountain is enjoying all the extra rain and is flowering brightly under the big magnolia tree at the front gate  W...

 Although it is indoor weather today I can see from my windows some flowering delights.  Now 18 months old (in my garden )  the Vireya rhodo...

It's Autumn so collecting the fallen feijoas is a daily task. When it has been windy or raining or both there is over 100 at a time to g...

   I decided if we wanted any I   better get to it before the wasps hollowed out all the pears and the ducks from the estuary ate all the ap...

 Finally, I've finished Felt embroidered ball # 30, for Matilda.  The motifs are:  a pear; a ladybird; a sunhat; a peapod ; a balloon; a...

 From 3 plants ( one butternut; one crown and one Queensland Blue ) we got well rewarded.  One got a rot and we already ate a butternut and ...

 If like me you are a reader and sometimes ( like now ) run low on books to read I suggest if you live anywhere near Tauranga in BOP, you go...

         As cyclone Gabrielle approaches NZ there is not much we can do to prepare. I went out this morning and picked all of these Dahlias ...

Fine but windy is okay for our planned big clean up outside today. With time and so much rain the concrete and the exposed wood on garden wa...