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Sun lovers
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Whilst most of the garden is gasping in this enduring heatwave, my succulents are thriving on it. Above is my WIP of succulent watercolours. Micron pen outline first, then initial wash laid down.
These Echeverias and Sempervivums have such an intricate way of growing. And such beautiful colours.
I’ve taken lots of cuttings as they are outgrowing all their containers. I just pop them into tiny vases till their new roots grow (almost immediately), or straight into new terracotta pots....
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Go West!
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
As lovely as it was, FNQ or TNQ (depending on whose marketing campaign you subscribe to), was not meant to be our permanent home. It was a great rollicking adventure to say the least, but we are settled back in our old home in the bottom LH corner of Aus again. After the bath warm waters of the Coral Sea, the frigid waves of the Indian Ocean were certainly invigorating!
So much has changed in the 19 months we were away - a whole new slew of suburbs have sprung up, new boardwalks, new faces...
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Boo!
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I’m Back.
Found the long lost passwords, Logins etc.
Have had a quick read of your lovely thoughts and comments. Lots to catch up on.
Right now I’m running late for a dinner on the shore, so will be back with all the nitty gritty soon.
Cheers me Dears!
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Brewing & Stewing
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Thanks to all of you for your comments, they really mean a lot to me. I have been such a slacker with posting of late - lots of “Real World” goings-on PLUS fighting for the computer = not a lot of posting.
Another soon-to-be-cyclone is brewing out in the Coral Sea. Bring on the Dry Season and soon!
I’ve been stewing on all the things I’ve got on my “To Do” list as well. I don’t physically have a written down list, just a mental note that seems to be...
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Frogs at my feet
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Cyclone Hamish certainly knows how to stir it up, even if he can’t make up his mind where he’s headed.
Yesterday Clifton Beach had a foreboding feel hanging over it.
If you look very carefully on the horizon you can just make out the shape of something luxurious…
…with a much more mundane friend beside it. I wonder if that’s the vessel that lost those 33 containers of Ammonia Nitrate, with another 3 tonnes spilt on deck. But don’t panic, it won’t...
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Cyclone Hamish, flotsam and jetsam
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Image courtesy of the Bureau of Meteorology
Cyclone Hamish could be here as early as tomorrow night/saturday morning. There goes the weekend plans of exploring the Tablelands. Still, might be less crowded at the Coffee Plantation.
Thanks for all your lovely comments on the last post. I was hoping to be able to get a lot of painting done, but the Evil Taxation Return had other plans for me. It’s still not completed, and it’s like an infected thorn sticking in my toe. I was wading...
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Colours
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Even though it was 33 deg C today, there is a definate change in the air. Even though the radio said the relative humidity at 8am last week was 94%, the mornings feel different. We really only have two seasons up here, Wet and Dry, and it’s been an amazingly dry week. (I may have put the mocker on myself as there is talk of a cyclone forming by the end of the week - Cyclone Hamish). Last year March was the wettest time of the year - who knows what’s in store'
You can’t fool...
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Q: What's scarier than a Python in your backyard'
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
A: The orthodontists’s quote this afternoon.
It’s around $6,000 to fill a teenager’s mouth with metal these days.
When we arrived home after the orthodontic shock, I noticed what seemed to be a patterned scarf near the back fence. It was under the Tree of Death, but as there were Peaceful Doves around it, I thought no way it could a Python. Again.
Wrong.
As I walked up to it I was able to see the final few gulps of wing feathers down it’s mouth.
How did he sneak up...
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Ex-wallaby
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
“If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise….”
As I came up to the metre wide trunk of this tree, I wondered where the other half of the resident was - the pointy half.
Tip-toeing quietly around the tree trunk, (which was perched on a steep slope above a very rocky creek bed some metres below), I found this:
One ex-wallaby and a very satisfied Scrubby (Amethystine Python).
That’s dinner taken care of for the next 6 months or so. Would that...
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Small packages
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Some unexpected garden bounty over the weekend, pretty much all in miniature.
Salvaging my sweet potato vine from the marauding bandicoot brought this treasue to light.
Not more than a mouthful, so back into the soil he went. Something else that went into the soil was this little sweetie:
A gift from my neighbour, who has an extensive collection of bromeliads. This was just one of 2 crates of beautiful broms he gave me. The smell of this mini pineapple was just like an exotic cocktail. I...
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The Great Wall & Pete
From Canetoads in my Coffee, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
It’s been such a busy end to the working week, isn’t it supposed to slow down after Wednesday'
But a good way to end a Friday was to call in to see my friend Pete, who has been working on a Great Wall.
Pete is a late comer to the world of painting. But it has in no way been a disadvantage. When asked to paint 30sq mtres of outdoor mural, he jumped in with both feet, regardles of the fact that he’s never painted one before.
When he asked me to come and have a look at his 90...
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