then it slipped {Winter}

+ It's Winter now. It slipped in silently, quietly on a mostly sunny and beautiful day. I was inside for most of the day-time of the day, except for the early morning and the late afternoon. Thank goodness for the beautiful view, and spectacular sunset from the Gallery Verandah.

+ The market is done and over, for now, until the next one in December. It feels good to be done. It was a good market, so wonderful to connect and share and meet new friends, and spend time with 'old' friends. Yes a day of gathering, sharing, connecting. Ideas, laughter, giving.

+ My mind, and the things that I thought were organised are tumbling around. In wonderful ways. Reforming to join or make new thoughts. New plans. Slipping and spinning.

+ A simple understanding. A moment of being. Trying to make that moment be the moment. Slowly slowly learning bit by teeny tiny bit to slip into that habit.


Things that are good:
+ This image and the matching words seen on foxslane instagram. Speaks to be so strongly. Ah - family gathered around a campfire, sipping on warm drinks, sharing in stories and laughter and hopes and dreams.
+ Wanting to re-read Motherless Daughters and Motherless Mothers. Must find them in my boxes of books packed away.
+ Wearing those spotty red tights, that I won (from Kate last Winter). So fun with my boots.

*these images, like this blog post, were from a few weeks ago. Sitting and waiting both to be shared with you here.

skies {and looking up}

A week of rain last week got us all down and mopey again. I think everyone in the Tweed Valley is affected by the rain the same way. All these years of wet and moss and mould and weather predictions that one friend joked could be the same for the next year.

So - seeing sunshine yesterday, and glorious blue skies today. It's enough to make us happy again. Anything's possible when the sky is blue and the only clouds we see are the pretty ones all coloured by the afternoon sun.

I love watching the morning shadows stretching into our yard.
This morning, while waiting for the school bus, the kids and I spotted spider web filled with dew, and fine early morning mist, and the sun slowly creeping over the mountains. And the birds were calling.

What a glorious start to the week. Winter is well and truely here.

     :: other lovely things from around ::
} my brother and his partner on the radio, talking about CSA
} fig and fauna - on such a pretty blog to look at, about life on a homesteading farm.
} Alex Falkiner - been so loving seeing her stitching work and colourful images on Instagram.
} Lotta's new exclusive collection - this top especially.
} and the sweet games my littlies were playing over the weekend - M dressed in her yellow tutu as Pikachu and A with a specially made Pokemon belt, as the trainer Ash.

skating runs in the blood

We all went skateboarding this morning. Lovely to go out, all together, as a family. So early in the morning (ok - it wasn't quite as early as we wanted, but it was before 7.30am).
And most lovely of all, was stopping and laughing and watching my little ones love the same thing that my big one (Sam) has loved for more than two thirds of his life.
be prepared - many gratuitously cute photos follow.

What a glorious morning, hey! Autumn in Brisbane is good weather - cool, hot, warm, cold in one day - but beautiful skies and sunny days.

the cold is creeping in

It's starting to get colder in the mornings now. And we've even been pulling this little blanket over us while we sit on the couch during the evenings.
Winter is slowly slowly approaching.
We are still having some warm, not quite hot, days.
But definitely it is getting cooler now.
Sam swapped our rugs over in the lounge room today. Doesn't it look so warm and cosy in here now.These are some lovely seedpod things that we brought home from our walk the other day. I've loved seeing these pinkish shapes in the trees lately. With the yellow flowers, they look amazing together.
Keep warm. xx