22 October Alpaca Award

I sent a handwoven wrap to the national Alpaca show recently and have been expecting it back now the show is over.  A package came in today's mail. It didn't seem big enough for a wrap . . . this is what it contained.

 Along with it was a $50 voucher to spend at Felt & Fibre . . . to add more stash to the stash I already have and don't have time to use! AND a note to say the wrap was sold and "the cheque is in the mail!"

This is the wrap. In a way I am sorry to see it go but hey - more money, more stash! I do have another in the same colour but with not so much pattern. Perhaps I will repeat this one in the same alpaca/silk in a vibrant peacock colour that has been looking at me for a while.

21 October Scott Street in Bloom

The blossom is lovely but the wind is giving it a hard time.

20 October A Starling Party!

What's the collective noun for a whole lot of starlings? There were probably not as many as four-and-twenty but a whole lot of them were having a party on my lawn today.

I don't know what they were eating but I sure hope it was weed seeds.

 

19 October Wisteria

Wisteria at its best - lovely while it lasts.

18 October Spilling over Fences

Walking home along Hospital Road all these shrubs were coming over their fences to greet me. It made me remember that there are still several things I want in my garden - especially the lilacs.

17 October A Nice Place for a Nap

I'm not sure whose cat this is but it has adopted this spot.

 

16 October Iris

Multiplying nicely. Not long ago it was a single bulb.