138:365 Toorak in Autumn

The leafy streets of Toorak are ablaze with colour this Autumn. It's lovely to walk along or drive along as I did this morning on my way to ITSC in Melbourne.

137:365 Balloons in The City

Hot Air Balloons in the city! I only thought they went in the country. But here they are flying over Melbourne. The chimney tops provide for a roof with many shapes. When I look around at the rooftops I am reminded of Mary Poppins.

136:365 Peace Roses

Just when everything is almost ready to go into dormancy the peace rose has spouted two lovely roses. I found them hiding behind the birdbath in my garden. Should I pick them? They have a beautiful smell. This was taking in the early morning with the sun just beginning to shine on them. The iPhone can take close up photos very nicely especially if there is good light.

135:365 Dew drops

An early morning shot shows the dew on this grass that sends up helicopter like heads to dispense the seeds. Is was hard to get the photo to capture the beauty of the dew drops. Nothing looks as good as the eye beholds.

The spiders aren't yet throwing across their webs to release their young as they do around this time of year. I'll keep looking as they look very nice with the early morning dew on them also.

134:365 Bar Stools

The bar stools are beginning to give way. Who is getting heavier? I think its Simon and as he is now 185 cms tall but has a BMI of 17.5 perhaps its his bones that are breaking the rattan cane. Or it is Dale? Couldn't be me. :) Hmm $85 dollars for each stool to be fixed plus GST. I suppose it's labor intensive. Found a place that sells the rattan cane at $45 a metre. Wonder how hard it is to replace?

133:365 Contrast

This is the view you get when you look up from below the ash tree at school. A beautiful contrast of reds against the bluest skies on a cold almost frosty (well was at 7:00am gone by 9:00 am) morning. The temp was 1 deg C, while in Melbourne it was a hot 10 deg C and in Canberra it was -2 deg C.

132:365 Catomometre

Our catomometre has told us the nights are getting cooler and with now almost zero temps at night we believe him. Cats just love warmth and are a good tester of heating devices. Timmy has approved all my new blankets this year and happily slept on them.

131:365 Colours abound

I just can't stop noticing the beautiful autumn colours this year. I think they are the best they have been in years. The last few nights have been very chilly and today we saw an early frost. The colder nights really start the trees to turn into their full colours. These ash tress are in our yard at school. They provide much needed shade in the summer, colour in the autumn and let the sun through in the winter.

130:365 Bats!

The bats are in Rosiland park. Hundreds of them in the tops of all the trees. They are large bats or flying foxes. You can smell them in the park and everyone wants them to go away. I can't remember bats being in the park before and certainly not in these numbers. If it gets cold they might move on but our weather has been quite mild.

129:365 Nothing but blue skies

Nothing but blue skies on another great Autumn day. This is a view down in our back paddock. It's amazing that in summer the paddock is all brown and now it's green. Blue and green should never be seen........... yet in nature it always looks so nice.