How does your garden grow?

 

good morning!

 

when i last wrote,

i lay down my pen...so to speak...

&

took a rest.

 

it was like at the end of all those 500 posts

i'd finished

&

really didn't know whether i'd take it up again.

 

 

 

but this morning

after a dry spell

i leapt out of bed and there had been a storm in the night.

the world was new again.

 i had a desire to write again as well...

to share something fresh.

 

 

 

i don't know quite where i'm heading

with all this

but as with life itself...

it'll just unfold

&

a story will be told!

 

 

 

oh what a beautiful morning...

oh what a beautiful day....

 

doris day here is warbling away!

 

have a great day...

 

 

 

naturally Carol xox

 

 

 

 



Post No. 500!

 

 

hi!

 

i was just about to write 'good morning'

but the morning has escaped already...

&

it's already past noon!

 

 

 

this is my 500th post.

they've been written over nearly 3 years.

my 1st was in august 2010.

it was written with as much angst

as anticipation.

it was a scary thought

that anyone but family might read my writing

&

i didn't know what family may think either!

 

 

 

now

we are old friends, my blog and i

&

all the people i've met and spoken to.

i look forward to spending time here...

some days more time than others.

 

 

 

my creative mojo has waned

but that's just part of life.

i've crocheted, sewn and knitted here

&

you've seen it all.

today i'm excited about my daughter's

garden transformations.

i'm her assistant

&

todays task as been to water all her babies

as they sun themselves under our bright blue queensland sky.

 

 

 

i do have a tiny jumper to finish knitting

&

with life a little less chaotic

maybe my creative mojo has just temporarily

ducked out for a cuppa...

here's hopin' anyway!

 

 

naturally Carol xox

 

 

 

 



Dragging My Feet...

 

hi there!

 

i have noticed everybody getting their act together

regarding the big changeover from google reader

to other circles and links

but i'm dragging my feet.

 

it's not that i don't love you

and don't want to belong

but

i have issues.

 

i have a problem

handing over more of my personal information...

address,

working status,

even my name

to another set of people who i don't know.

 

i don't do facebook or twitter

for the same reason...

and then there's the information or photos

i may post there...

what could they be used for or by in the future.

 

i am cautious...perhaps overly...

but i'm not committing 'til i see how this all plays out.

so if you see someone

behind the crowd...

just observing my friends racing ahead...

it's probably me.

 

....and by the way

 

 

 

i'm knitting a little jumper for kai,

'cos in another couple of months

the weather will be a bit cooler

and he just may need it.

 

 

the back's done...the front is on it's way...

 

waving to you from here

behind the crowd...

 

 

naturally Carol xox

 

 

 



Appreciated...

 

hi!

thank you jill!

&

thank you catherine!

 

 

 

after blogger refusing me the option

of accessing photos on my computer

{uploaded from my camera}

i was completely frustrated and had no idea what to do about it.

 

i was wondering whether i had uploaded too many photos

but that wasn't the case

as my sister jill had way under the limit

and had the same problem.

 

i told jill about the hint catherine had left me after the last post.

she said to use html.

 

jill had a fiddle with blogger while i went and ate some dinner.

she phoned me to say...

go into html..

...you can only upload pics this way

if you have some script on the new post already...

then take the option there to upload photos

and it will offer what 'compose', 'insert image' 'browse'

used to offer.

 

when you've finished uploading the image,

it seems you can go back to compose

and write the rest of the post without a problem.

 

 

 

so now

you get to see the lovely and unusual hibiscus flowers

that are nodding at me

from outside my bedroom window!

 

 

 

it seems that although only 'small', 'medium' or 'large'

size images are offered on html

that when you revert to 'compose'

you can click on the image again and normally change the image size again

if preferred.

 

i don't know why blogger is acting like this

and removing options...

but obviously jill and catherine are smarter!

 

yay!

have a great day!

 

naturally Carol xox

 

 

 

 

Pruning!

hi there...

it's a windy monday morning here,

just fine for blowing away the cobwebs

and blowing in {to my house} all those tiny pesky jacaranda leaves.

 

 

you would be surprised to learn

that these are the remains of last seasons leaves on the jacaranda trees

out the front.

there are rusty coloured leaves all over the paths beneath

and the pesky little things

fly in the windows and are carried inside on the soles of our shoes.

it looks more like autumn than the beginning of spring.

 

it's hard to believe that in just a few weeks

these trees will be covered in purple blossoms...

oozing with stickiness falling on my car

and covering the ground like a royal carpet.

 

these sweet delights never cease to surprise me...

 

 

i have recorded these naturalised freesias flowering

for three seasons now

and this year there are even patches of them several meters away from the 'mother bunch'...

how did they get there?

it's a mystery to me..i didn't plant more bulbs!

 

but they reminded me that it was just about this time of year

that i first started 'naturally Carol'...two years ago.

 

this took me to my list of followers

and led me on to some long overdue  housekeeping pruning.

i realised that some of the blogs i've followed

were extinct.

people move on.

things happen beyond their control.

other ventures are started.

babies are born who need time and care and a blog is neglected, forgotten even.

 

so i took some time to say goodbye

to those that hadn't been updated for more than about eight months or longer...

showing no signs of life,

either slumbering or departed.

 

it was quite a mammoth effort,

culling out about twenty percent..can you believe it..of dead wood.

but now i feel like a house swept clean,

although there are a couple of treasures i just had to keep

and not give up on...

just in case

one day my blogging friends may decide to return

and keep me company here once more.

 

have you got long since departed sites

just hanging around,

or friends who have left that you just hang on to..

hoping?

 

or do you just leave everything there

not touching a thing?

 

how many people can you follow anyway?

 

 

...crepe myrtle branches.

i think 'crepe myrtle' would have to be one of my favourite plant names...

just as well i never had more than one daughter

i may have called her 'crepe myrtle'...hehe.

miss b..that was a close escape!

 

i finished my sewing my market bag late on saturday afternoon.

i'll show it to you later this week.

 

take care...

with your prunings & plantings

 

naturally Carol xox