Beautiful Weekend

Sharing a lovely sunny weekend with family and friends - Perfect!

A little knitting for World Wide Knit in Public day. (no surprises there)

Strawberry ripple mits

A lovely tour of the Botanical Gardens - there is much to see no matter the season. 

Plenty of people were out enjoying the winter sunshine.

The leaves that forgot to fall

There are some amazing structures and monuments around the gardens.

This monument to Queen Victoria actually has four separate poses celebrating different events in her life.

excuse the finger!

There was cake, well this long weekend is in celebration of the Queen's birthday.

Delicious.

This model of an old treadle sewing machine is animated like the real thing and plays music when you open the drawer. 

A gift from SJ - about 6 inches tall

Hope the sun is shining in your part of the world.

While I wasn't here...

I've been here 

and here

Spending time in good knitty company while making good progress on this and this.

Drops Jacket 103-1 and Two Horse Hitch sock

Just the right weather for knitting a jacket and socks. The sock has a May 31st deadline so best I get that one finished up. (Oh, sure that is the blue reversible wrap at the back of the picture - all done except for the weaving in of ends.)

The body of the jacket is complete - using a shawl pin to keep it aligned, but it will get buttons to finish it off.

Sleeves in the making, it looks like I have enough yarn to complete the collar as on the pattern which will stop the breezes around my neck. Yay!

Hope your weekend was warm.

Out and about Snippets

Oh, sure my knitting tagged along.

You can find more snippets here.

Winter sunshine

My favourite thing this week is winter sunshine.

What a difference a day makes - yesterday was overcast and dull for most of the day and today I was greeted with blue sky and sunshine.

When the sun is shining outside I like to be out there and winter sunshine is perfect for wandering around checking out the sights.

Up early today and look what I saw.

Okay is that a better picture - they move fairly fast even without a lot of wind.

This one was closer to the landing field and was just above the roof tops when I passed it.

It would have been a perfect morning for floating over the city checking out the sights.

The following were taken earlier this month in the parks and gardens which are right next to the city in Melbourne.

Difficult to photograph from the street but this is the floral clock which is replanted regularly with pretty flowers in interesting designs.

An Hellenic monument.

One of the interesting old buildings near the entrance to Melbourne's Royal Botanical Gardens.

There is no information on this building except the no 1899 - looking good for something so old.

Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance -a rather grand structure.

The Friendship fountain with water flowing - something that was not happening during the drought. All the rain earlier in the year means that this area is once again green and the fountains are bubbling nicely.

Perfect stroll in the winter sunshine.

To see who else is playing favourites run on over to Mrs Pyjamas.

Tonight is Friday Night Sew In hosted by Heidi and Bobbi - thanks ladies I'm almost organised and hoping for some serious sewing action tonight. It's been a while.

Hope your Friday is Fantastic.

Picnic time

Hi there. Geoffrey here - mum said I could tell you about the picnic today.

While mum had a nice hot coffee - I went exploring in the park by the water.

There was this really cool thing to climb on. I just had to get up to inspect it closer.

Who put all those big bolts in there? This structure is mostly metal and looks very old.

I wonder why they need it here by the water.

Holding on tight while I climb across this bit, it's a long way down for a little bear like me.

I see now why they need this here by the water. It is to protect the city which is just over there.

Another rather cool grey day here but we had fun out exploring this morning anyway.

Hope you can join the picnic today, we'd love to see what you get to explore.

Edit:

OOoops - apparently there has been a change in the picnic schedule so we won't be joined by the others today. Just when we got a bit organised too.

Hope your day was a good one where ever you are.