Thursday, July 23, 2009

more drizzling


after a whole long spring and part of the summer being out we are now living inside again. even the 'knuffels' are in the window-sill looking for a dry moment.

Friday, July 17, 2009

best souvenir ever

almost two years ago the three of us went all the way to the other side of the world to visit a very good (and yet very missed) friend and her family. we had a lovely time, good talks and big giggles. and off course at the end of the visit bitter tears because it is not fair we live our lifes so far from each other. during the visit down under we saw the most ugly, of the horrible kind, souvenirs. but one of the last days we visited an 'art shop' in Daylesford where I discovered our little fellow. and that was the souvenir I had been looking for! after a too long flight home we unpacked the guy (we are sure it is a male) and released him in our garden where he immediatly found a favourite spot. and ever since I start the day with a glimpse, out of my bedroom window, of far down under in my own garden! And at those moments my friend is not that far and I do a telepathically 'smile and wave'......


ps. sorry for the lousy picture (a better camera is on its way!)

Sunday, July 12, 2009

rain and refreshment


after weeks of dry and warm weather, we are now unhappy looking outside to drizling drops along the windows. for the garden it is a refreshment and all the plants look quiet happy. they were really thirsty.


husband also thougth about the 'indoor'green friends and put them on the terrace to get fresh leaves. it depends on the focus; it can be a tropical garden or a drizling Dutch Sunday.....

forms

I do not understand exactly why kids always draw a flower with a hearth in the middle and some leaves grouped around it. there are not many flowers which look like a kids idea of a flower. when I look around in the garden I can hardly discover a 'normal' flower:





well... okay then, there is a kids flower in the garden:


and it is a beautiful one and my favorite!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

dead little creatures

as I wrote earlier, our cat Saar is a true co-user of the garden space and beyond. it is paradise for her. she is queen of the neighbourhood and has hardly any enemies. there is just one big male cat; when he is around she escapes inside and expects us to send the guy away (which we won't be doing, we think she has to be strong enough to face him as well).
in daytimes cat Saar can look so quiet and peaceful and lazy but at nights she just turns into a murderer. in the morning we see in the kitchen or on the carpet (and these days on the grass) what she has left for us as her trophees. this morning I found two of them in the grass, hopefully not a couple with a nest full of little ones left behind.


mice we can handle (they fit in the carbage bin). a few days ago she almost caught a duck. so we are prepared to find a dead heron or goose one morning....

more hide and seek

wednesday morning and the garden door is open. I'm trying to get some 'order' in my household after too many days of running for work and birthday parties (four in one weekend). then I do hear a strange sniffing in the garden. is it my cat that has been eating from something that makes her sick, is it a duck that got lost and is strolling in the shrubs. on my search (excitement at 9.30 in the morning...)

I find two hedgehogs sniffing loud to each other. is this a matter of territory quarrel or has this something to do with mating? I let them; and they leave me behind wondering why hedgehogs show up in day time. I only know these guys from times very late in the evening or very early on the morning (and that is why I don't see them that often!)