Annie's Blog

There we go..I did it...some skies from Melbourne al last! Mostly it has been a sunny week, but there were a couple of cold days ...and a rainbow..a double rainbow..and the brightest one I ever saw! I hope you like this grevillea...I reduced the wrong one, didn't I, so you get more grevillea than sky, sorry! This is the Dandenongs, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. A nice place to visit..a little chilly in the winter! There you are ..a Melbourne Sky..at long last! And another one..this was when the skies were sunny, as they are now again! We had a few days in between there of brr..cold winds and cloudy skies...but there was a dazzling rainbow..I wonder if I will be able to get it on here for you? Yes, I did, but in my usual fashion it is at the beginning! If you would like to see more skywatch entries, please go to... the new blog for Skywatch http://skyley.blogspot.com/

The entrance to a tunnel on my way back here yesterday. Some beautiful Australian Gum trees were starting to flower at the tennis centre where my sister played tennis in the bitterly cold wind yesterday!. A lovely wattle tree at my sister's place. One of her doggies loves to escape and chase the rabbits next door in the goat paddock, so we had to go down and entice him home again before we could go off to tennis ! and a bottle brush..one of the many Australian Native plants she has in her garden We watched my favorite program..Grand Designs, which is from the UK which Jill kindly taped for me while I was overseas with Jo in New York. The road to Jill's is like a country bush track in places. Something is bursting out all over... Of course, we hit the shops to have a look see at a newly renovated shopping centre! and then it was back here to the kids. All gathered around the 4 yr olds computer which I am very luckily able to use while I am here! They are all recovering from thei...

I is for IAN and friends at the twins party I is for IAN'S keyboard ...which seems to have withstood the test of time, and the many sleepy breakfasts consumed above it!! Please go to http://wednesdayabc.blogspot.com/ to see some of the other entries or http://abcwednesdayround3.blogspot.com/ if you would like to see other competitors and link to their blog entries

Hope you have had/are having a lovely weekend. In Australia it is already Sunday evening...where do the weekends go, when you are having fun! I came down for the twins birthdays , so it has been a busy time for them all, especially when they are not feeling well either! Melbourne skies have been wonderful during the week! We had a lovely outing to the park. great fun..especially with twins. Mum said she can't go to the park with the littlies, unless she has someone else to keep an eye on them as well, in case Mr R decides to take off. Now he is two, he is very mobile..and loves running away! What a fun game. Usually it is just in the house around the furniture which isn't so bad! The gardens are lovely! This grevillea was growing in their back yard. Beautiful! I am now at my sister's place down here at lovely Eltham, having a little catch up from the busyness of the last couple of days...good to see the rest of the family...before I head back to the littlies for some more ...

I am in Melbourne visiting my son and daughter in law, and grandchildren, for the 2 year old twins birthdays. What fun! Because I am using Hannah the 4 yr old's computer, I can't get access to shrink my photos that we downloaded last night, so there are no skywatch photos here for you yet. But we are working on it. Perhaps after the the celebrations die down we might get time to do it! Sorry to disappoint you. I have already taken about a gigabytes worth of photos in a couple of days. Next time maybe I might have my own laptop perhaps. As my daughter says, I will need an external hard drive, to keep all my photos on! She burned 3 dvd's of photos that I took in New York recently for me to bring home. Oh yes, I need a dvd burner for to able to use them! Oh the joys of modern technology! Just as well I like to keep some of my favorites on my camera cards, or I wouldn't have had any to print out, or to put on my family blog! Well, until there are photos, bye de bye!

ABC WEDNESDAY H is for HAIRCUTS HIBISCUS and HANNAH wears a HAT Please go to http://wednesdayabc.blogspot.com/ to see some of the other entries or http://abcwednesdayround3.blogspot.com/ if you would like to see other competitors and link to their blog entries

We were encouraged to give thanks during the children's talk and the sermon this morning. Heather got the kids to make this banner and some of the Dad's to hang it up for us! Thanks for the glorious spring flowers. We made a tree at church before I left for the US, and were encouraged to make or bring along something that we would find in a tree! So I made this bird's nest ..out of chicken wire as you can probably see! So I was delighted to find it still there on the "tree" today when I went to church. We were also supposed to bring photos of our fathers/families to share, which was nice. Since it happens to be Father's day in Australia. Thanks for Dads. The wattle tree at the back of the church has plenty of seed pods on it. A wonderful arrangement at church. Thanks for the flower arrangers. Abbey waits patiently for me to come back from my walk. Thanks for our pets and wild animals. A lovely blossom I passed on my walk this morning. And a glorious sun...