things I know
Joining in with Yay for Home today!
Things I know:
1. The grass isn't always greener. Sometimes I wish I was someone else, or something other, or part of the gang, or perhaps better at self promotion. And then I take a good hard look at the absolute blessings around me and I think: bugger the big picture. This, right now, is wonderful.
2. If you leave the TV off, you might just come around a corner one day and find something truly amazing.
3. Sometimes time stands still.
4. In flooding rains there'll be casualties. For me it was most of my basil crop. These four are the last standing from what was this:
But the fittest that survive tend to go a bit nuts with relief:
(Forecast: we are going to have cucumbers coming out our ears shortly. Should be attractive.)
5. I am so not ready for her to walk. So not ready.
6. Sometimes an after dinner walk is exactly what everyone needs…
… the best kind of therapy. (It's just a car. It's just money. We'll forget about all that but we'll remember these hills, that glorious light, hanging out together laughing.)
7. After the rain, the sun comes out.
Hello, Sunshine.
xxx
Yayforhome
March 25, 2011 at 5:13 pmThose photos make me want to live where you are!
Thanks for joining in 🙂
Roberta Draper
March 25, 2011 at 5:45 pmBeautiful, Can I come for a visit? lol, loved all the post, the 1st one is such a real feeling, and the rest is what we really should be focused on thanks for the reminders.
Jo
March 25, 2011 at 6:26 pmJust shared a couple of glasses of wine with Gaye in the park while the big kids were at a birthday party – missed you! Hang in there Fi x
Sue
March 25, 2011 at 8:15 pmLove for you and this and mine, too, and all things. Catch up soon!
Kate
March 25, 2011 at 8:33 pmSuch beautiful photos! I want to live there too 🙂
bennoss
March 25, 2011 at 9:36 pm… all i need to know.
keepcatebusy (Cate)
March 25, 2011 at 10:53 pmI live for #2!! So sorry about #5…but I don’t think that one is up to you 🙂 And that kind of sunshine is the best!!
have a great weekend Fiona
xxxCate
mosey handmade
March 25, 2011 at 11:06 pmsimply beautiful post!
made me tear up, even,
thanks i.p.!!!!
Anne
March 25, 2011 at 11:27 pmWhat gorgeous photos! #6 and #7 are just the reminders I needed today, so thanks!
PinkCat
March 25, 2011 at 11:29 pmThe photos are so lovely. It would be so nice to have such a beautiful landscape on the doorstep. A piece of heaven for oneself. x
MJ
March 26, 2011 at 12:04 amGorgeous photos, and I would have to agree, your grass is beautiful just where you are!!!!
Baby by the Sea
March 26, 2011 at 2:55 amThis is so well written, so deeply beautiful. Wow. I stayed a bit here, had a look around on your blog and really enjoyed myself.
Sarah
March 26, 2011 at 10:07 amGlorious. Beautiful. Your words, I mean.
Sarah
March 26, 2011 at 3:46 pmLooks like you live in heaven. Cucumbers have taken over my entire vegie patch, somewhere, beneath all of that fuzzy foliage I have strawberries, silverbeet, sage, lettuce and parsely – all still there despite a massive blanket of cucumber leaves!
And number 3, that tree, I could just plonk myself on the grass and stare at it all day. Magic.
Ellen
March 27, 2011 at 1:16 amAh, green and rolling hills. A breath of fresh air. Thank you!
Nichole
March 27, 2011 at 6:01 amLove all of this. Too bad we live on opposite ends of the earth. I sure would enjoy sharing a cup a tea and a little tour of your green grass and beautiful big picture, friend.
Take care! And enjoy every moment.
innerpickle
March 27, 2011 at 9:57 pmmiss you guys too – owe you a phonecall – talk this week xx
innerpickle
March 27, 2011 at 9:59 pmI ADORE that tree, Sarah. It’s completely enormous. Faraway-like.
innerpickle
March 27, 2011 at 10:00 pmThanks for this comment, lovely lady. I thought if it all day, and about how it doesn’t matter where we are, there’s a bunch of people connecting and talking in all these funny little online spaces and that’s just awesome. You never know, we may get that cuppa one day!
Claudine
March 28, 2011 at 4:04 pmWhat a wonderful post! Sometimes our simple change in perspective makes all the difference in the world doesn’t it?!
You’ve captured some amazing views of your life in the country — I love it!