Day 164 - Crazy Hair

Day 147 - Hedgehog

Day 145 - Hello

Look closely.
Can you see?
It is carved
In the tree.

Day 138 - The Ups And Downs On The Trampoline Of Life

Day 126 - Luminescent

Day 124 - Take It In

Day 110 - Trampoline Sunset

Day 104 - Greenview

A visit to Greenview Park, otherwise known as 'Kangaroo Poo Park'.

Day 103 - Reluctant Subject

Day 97 - Plant A Seed

Watch it grow.

Day 65 - The Cricket Warrior Returns

Day 63 - Water Pistols At Ten Paces

Day 61 - Feathers for Flowers

Day 48 - A House Made of Lego

Day 42 - Corrugated Tin and Tan Lines

Day 37 - Post-Swim

Calm and content.

Day 34 - Big School

My youngest started 'big school' today.
All smiles, no tears.
Relieved.
But dirty fingernails were forgotten in the morning chaos, too busy trying to navigate that place between holiday mode and the return to routine.

Day 25 - If

I read - and loved - this poem long before I had a son. Now it resonates with me even more. 

'If' by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

Day 21 - Aurelian

My daughter likes moths. Dead or alive. Not fussed.

Day 16 - Lovebird

My eldest daughter sewed me a bird today. She knows I am doing a photo-a-day blog and wanted me to take a photo of it and make it the photo of the day. There was never any question...
A gift made with patience and love. It should be shared.