Home on the Main Range

The gift of time. Spending what we have doing the things that matter, the things that matter to others. Being meaningful in someone's life. These are not new concepts, or somehow "new" for me. However, putting it into reality and having the privilege of being out on the water with Dave and Chris for a few hours, that's a first and new experience for me. Mudcrabs and catfish ought to have been a clue - a delightful morning on the Coomera River.  

New life, new home. Gifts of years gone by - a daughter's pottery hand build from school days, a succulent gifted from the new owners of our previous home. They go together, like many good things this Valentine's Day. We celebrate the rest of the year with random acts of kindness and thoughtfulness and after almost twenty years, this year was no different. Lots of love and grateful thoughts in the house today.

  A first for me is the gift of indoor plants from the WMBM for my 60th. I've learned so much - about observation, attention, problem solving, light, water and soil. I'm in  love. Mostly thriving, one that's keeping me on my toes and likely to break my heart. What is it about bringing nature indoors? My last foray was sometime in the fog of the 70s - a venus fly trap that died of obesity.  In the eighties it was a happy plant I snapped in half in a fit of temper - and marked the end and beginning of something life-changing. Now an almost 30 year gap to the beginners guide to indoor plants. What the WMBM doesn't know I glean from another gift for my 60th -  Green Thumb   by Craig Miller-Randle. 

  This week I completed the Resene paint chips challenge for NZ Symposium later this year. Two colours - half tuna, and Kandinsky.  Inspiration came from Kandinsky's Gravity and the interplay between circles, lines and squares. Loved experimenting with the restricted colour palette. A finished size of 12" square.  .