Spring Brings New Life to Baby Birds and Me

This is Springtime in our garden at home.

Have you ever seen such a glorious Weeping Cherry as this?

You can actually get in underneath it - it is just so large!

This is what fairytale gardens are made of!

Those blossoms are of the softest shades of pink and white!

And not only does Spring bring such new growth

but

also new life and new beginnings!

Just look at these divine little baby Grey Shriek Thrushes being fed a dragon fly

by their mother

and

to think it is all happening in view from our kitchen window!

Jeff placed this cutdown garden pot on a bracket

about 3 years ago in our outdoor living garden room

and so far we have had

three separate hatchlings.

And

over here nestled in this Sweet Osmanthus

is another nest of baby New Holland Honeyeaters

Look at the expression in it's eyes!

Just how precious is that???

And I couldn't resist showing images of this dear little nest I also found

Look at the colours of these feathers -

So beautiful

I can identify the red ones as being from that of the

Red Browed Fire Tail

We have so many of these little birds in our garden.

I can even see some of the clippings from our Apricot Poodle in there -

Miss Lilly.

Spring and the bird song and the new movement of life

has been the motivation for my new nature journal

entitled

"Little Bird".

The bird image used on the front cover is from Dawn at

http://www.the-feathered-nest.blogspot.com/

Dawn has been so generous in allowing bloggers

access to her beautiful images - thank you Dawn!

Other materials used on the cover include scrim which I have dyed and quilted

along with silk for leaves, webbing for the bird's nest,

buttons and a feather from an Australian "Kookaburra".

This opened page view displays a pocket which holds a

First Day Cover

of renowned Botanist, Sir Joseph Banks,

who accompanied Captain Cook in the "Endevour"

to Australia.

The scripted page is from a paper napkin which came all the way from

my dearest friend, Dorthe, in Denmark

http://www.denlillelade.blogspot.com/

and will now be winging its way to Canada

(the world's best travelled paper napkin!!!).

This back cover is made from upholstery fabric depicting an Oak Leaf.

I shall post more pages a bit later!

Finally one last reminder about my

Giveaway for Gratitude

If you would like to enter

you have just two days to put your comment

in the post which is

The post before the last post.

Wishing everyone the best of luck
in the draw!

Hope you are all having a most creative week!

Love Suzy xxx