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1 September 2011

Spring Is Here



The red Alpine style house is built into the side of an extict 
volcano. My grandparent's built it as their 70s dream house.


This beautiful purple weed's flowering everywhere...

This blossom looks like snowballs at the moment. It's so very very dreamy. My 
grandmother planted it 30 years ago and the plums...  taste like my childhood.




The border of the garden bed was made from the volcanic 
rocks which littered the property when it was purchased.



The  first day of Spring greeted us with sunshine and  blossom-filled breezes. I took these photos in the garden this afternoon. Everything is looking so wonderfully... springy! Jonathan created the fairy garden for Ari last year. It fills the flower bed beneath an enormous fir tree (much like how I imagine the faraway tree might be). It's a little overgrown and in need of a tidy, but still our favourite part of the garden. I found the little fairy in a junk shop. She sits on a rock inscribed with the words...

'life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away'

Happy Springtime! 
or Autumn or Rainy Season...
depending on where you reside



Ari's outfit:  vintage 1970s overalls: op shop, star print spencer: Baby Gap 
and batman gumboots: Cotton On Kids (both found second hand at savers)
Total cost of Ari's outfit =   $6.98

3 comments:

  1. Hi Anna-Maria, Glad that Loco enjoyed the Mercedes Helnwein video. It is strangely hipnotic. Thanks for popping over to the Murgatroydhoots blogspot & for your lovely comments. Much appreciated!
    On the day you are experiencing Spring flexing it's muscles, here in England Autumn has well and truely reared it's head. The leaves are golden, red and falling!

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  2. It's a lovely thing, watching the seasons change the colour of the world. I really missed that when we were surrounded by the hustle and the bustle of the city every day.

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  3. your blog, and your child, and your fairy garden, are all so adorable. i can practically taste the spring air in my mouth looking at those blossoms! i won't lie... spring is my favorite season, and i am not the happiest camper going into Autumn over here. but at least I can live vicariously, thanks to Modern Technology! (-: Sasha

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