Spinning, Spinning, Spinning

I say summer, you say winter. I say autumn, you say spring. It's starting to make me feel a bit giddy whirling through the seasons this way! I'm quite sure time is now moving twice as fast since I've been blogging! I have been trying to imagine my world without seasons & the thought overwhelms me..a door shuts & the light goes out. I am bereft. So much of the beauty that I daily seek is carried in the momentum, the flow as one season gives way to the next. The seasons mark out life through every age..how tragic to be a child & not be anchored in the wisdom & knowledge of the changing seasons. What have we at the end but the peering forward, the leaning out the window in hope, for just one more glimpse, one last taste of life.
In our autumn here it all comes by the dozen...

& more,

 whether fruiting or flowering, even nakedly.
(naked ladies also known as belladonna lilies)

 Passionfruit...one of my most favoured flavours. Come to think of it, I don't believe I've actually ever met anyone who doesn't like passionfruit.

It only occurred to me recently that you could, in fact, cut the top off one & scoop it out rather than cut in half & have half the juice escape. I love eating passionfruit just with a spoon or sometimes squeezing them straight in to my mouth...oh heaven. Do tell me how you like to eat passionfruit the most.

I have found a few sweet greengage plums this week & one or two black boy peaches. I had forgotten how exceptionally hairy that they are, the peaches...I almost want to pat them! 

 A pretty perennial salvia (I think). The flowers remind me of a red salvia that we used to pick as kids & suck the "honey" out of the bottom of the flower.

 Oh pansy you are so lovely.

 I also can't imagine not hanging my washing on the washing line..outside! Yet I know for many reasons there are plenty of people who don't manage it.
I suppose if all your laundry was ugly it wouldn't look particularly enchanting..Nanna pants & blokes trousers, holey old rags don't have quite the same appeal, but the Marks & Spencer cardi I found at the Op Shop will do just fine.

 I truly feel as if I hardly get out much just at the moment, but I did find a minute to pop into Connections this week..I could hardly believe my eyes when I found this gorgeous bag..

 and with a name like Cherubini!

I have come to love pressed & depression glass & discovered Carnival glass a while back..the sparkly, colourful cousins of the glass department, but I had never seen anything Carnival glass in pink before so when this bowl came up on Trade Me I bought it.

Isn't it so pretty? 

 Soft & pretty is so good for my soul..

 ugly has to happen sometimes though! No, not Rob silly, the rot in our house.

I am learning that it is so easy to be frustrated that we do not know more right now, but if we practice & we keep at it, some day, one day, we might actually have the skills to do a good job.

Rob has worked so hard at repairing our home & he is doing a marvelous job & loving it & feeling proud of himself to be able to draw on some really useful skills & some assertive brain power & is making good use of a lovely yellow crayon.

 This wonderful old book has come in very handy indeed.

 So of course I bought him valentines! They are a cross between an apricot & a nectarine. I've not seen them before but that's the last of them from Bellatinos for now, so I will look out for them again this time next year.

 Ted suggested that you should see the cape gooseberries too. Aren't they so cute the way that they make their own wee paper packets.

 I love comb honey. I read that if you eat local honey that you can often relieve allergy symptoms like hayfever. Well guess what?...it really does work! I was experiencing increasingly nasty bouts of hayfever but am doing so much better after a year or so of including more honey & some propolis in my diet.

 I came across a beetroot dip in a River Cottage cook book this week.Oh it is so delicious!

 Well here's to autumn in our neck of the woods & to you..sweet friends. (Cider...I am thinking of having a go at making that next).
 I have had a lovely visit with my boy.. & a hug.. & plied him with risotto & rockmelon, filled his back pack with fruit & watched him cycle off, with a much more settled maternal heart. Thank you so much for your concern & prayers on that one. It's not aways easy making our way in the world is it?

Have a wonderful week dear ones.

MUCH

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