Changing of the Seasons

Well Autumn is now showing herself very discreetly

in our garden for another season!

It has been another incredibly dry Summer here again

so when this beautiful soft 25mls of rain landed I just had

to rush out and capture these magnificent rain drops

sitting on the Manchurian Pear Trees.

It takes very little before things

start greening up again!

It's such a different scenario this year than at the same time last year

when we were fighting off a huge bushfire dangerously 

close to our boundary fence so to see the soft

rain dappling our rocks and native grasses

is a pleasant relief!

Some ladders and garden tools are propped in readiness

for taming our very rambling garden.

You just see the very beginnings of the changing colors

from green to red on the grapevine.

I love this grapvine in every season - you can never tire

of it's beauty for shade, protection and shelter

for birds nesting too!

There is a different view around every corner

like this gnarled looking Ornamental Grapevine, a rusty garden gate,

 a few cast iron pots and rusty buckets

used for different jobs around the garden.

The sight of the girlie goats returning to their home paddock

walking in line besides the bubbling creek

with their drenched Angora fleeces

wishing they could get through that fence and into

the Belladonna Lillies

and even, better still, would be the last remaining 

Just Joey apricot roses in their last flowering before Winter sets in

or perhaps those pretty Hydrangeas which have almost

turned red.

This last bit of rain we hope will keep some life

in our garden until Winter returns once again!

Hope you all get a chance to spend just a wee bit of time
outdoors somewhere appreciating
the subtle changes of coolness, warmth, melting snows,
sunshine or rain wherever and whenever you can.

Thank you to all of my new followers - 
I hope there is enough to inspire your days here
in whatever you are doing!!!

Big hugs, Suzy xox