smoke texture

As we have been inundated by a very destructive summer of bush fires, I have been thinking a lot recently about the power of fire.  We learn fires are a natural part of the Australia bush system, enabling clearance and rejuvenation.  However, now that our homes and private land has encroached far into the native landscape it causes far more damage and disruption to our lives. Bare. Baren. Black. Burnt. Cinders and twisted spines. Cinders and smoke. Devastated beauty.

P O P

Poppies are one of our most favourite flowers.
We love picking up a bunch of furry little popsicles and waiting as they slowly mature and then - pop! so clever with their comic timing and wirey steams. 
I think it must be love.

Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers that grow so incredibly high

The beatles sure knew their flowers!

(photos from google images)

Flowers Surround

 

I almost missed the bus this morning as I was distracted while running up the hill through this tunnel of love. oh la la!

Nether Ever Lands!

I thought this must be a joke until I found out that it wasn't.
Tulip land in the Netherlands.  Google image it.  I dare you!

Green and Pleasant

We love gardens.
Most gardens.
All gardens that have love... Ranging from our minature wannabe gardens formulated on window sills and barely-there balconies to immaculately designed, controlled and tended to feats of landscape delight such as those featured in last months issue of Elle Decor UK. A hand-picked selection of the best outdoor spaces around the world are featured - from the Noguchi Museum in NYC, to stately English manors and Monet’s Gardens at Giverny. Sigh. Beautiful.

 

 

 Photos: Elle Decor UK

Welcome back little plant!

We collectively squeeled with excitement this week to learn that this beautiful flowering plant, Silene Stenophylla, has been regenerated  from a little seed burried by a (presumably cute) squirrel during the ice age in Siberia (how fantastical!) 32,000 years ago. whoa.

Scientists dug 28 below permafrost, through the ice, past layers of mammoth, bison and woolly rhinoceros (!) bones to get to the seeds.

I would love to see these growing on a window sill - or in a little delicate posy on a night stand.  I haven't been able to find out whether or not they are scented however in my imagination they smell a little like jasmin mixed with fairy floss...

Photo: National Geographic