21/12/2022 Photo a Day On the floor

 Zoe playing on the floor watched closely by Molly

 20/12/2022 Photo a Day Begins with S

 19/12/2022 Photo a Day Joy is...

 A good friend of many years pictured here with her Mother who's in her nineties

 18/12/2022 Photo a Day I made this

  

 I gifted this quilt to Tom's sister in Tasmania when I visited about five years ago

 17/05/2022 Photo a Day A Hat

  Luke wearing his school hat

 16/12/2022 Photo a Day Candy Cane

 I made this for our Christmas Party on Monday

 15/12/2022 Photo a Day Star

 14/12/2022 Photo a Day Decoration

 13/12/2022 Photo a Day Something green

The tree that shades my home in the summer although I don't really need shade this summer as it's quite cool in Bathurst today.

 12/12/2022 Photo a Day Lights

   A small row of Santa lights across my mantle are the only lights I have this year

 11/12/2022 Photo a Day Free Choice

 My American friend Judy was asking me one day what the word Furphy meant, and I was explaining it's another term for exaggerated stories told around the water cart (a precursor to the water cooler). Here is Tom leaning on a Furphy in 2014 Ingham Qld.

 10/02/2022 Photo a Day Out and about

  Molly likes going for rides in the car she has her harness and seat belt on !

 9/12/2022 Photo a Day Small 

  A close up of one of my dwarf hydrangeas

Happy birthday Luke

 

  

He is growing up so fast

 8/12/2022 Photo a Day Looking Up 

My sister Louise was sitting reading on her back deck in Brisbane a couple of months ago when she looked up and spotted this visitor going up onto her roof.

 7/12/2022 Photo a Day A tree 

   The tree in my courtyard ensures I have a shady spot in summer

My Brother

The three of us in the backyard at Neutral Bay many years ago from left Christine, Louise and Andrew and in front Lindy and Lady today Andrew would have been 69 Rest in Peace little brother forever young.

 6/12/2022 Photo a Day Peace

The Peace rose was introduced in 1945 to celebrate Peace after WWII , every country in the United Nations was given one .

 5/12/2022 Photo a Day Something Red

 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

 4/12/2022 Photo a Day I held this

   My Granddaughter Zoe who was about 6 weeks here, last week she was Christened aged three years, the time since she was born has been very different indeed! When she was about a month old her Grandfather died then it is Christmas, then the bushfires and then COVID but we got there in a lovely ceremony last Sunday in Marrickville.

 3/12/2022 Photo a Day Starts with T

 My children Trish and Tim in March 1975

 2/12/2022 Photo a Day I bought this

 1/12/2022  Photo a Day  I love this

   This is my cousin Jenny who got stuck in Bathurst during the floods last month , I hadn't seen her since her Father's funeral in 1997 and so many family members have gone since then including her twin sister in 2000.

It was so good to catch up on all the news 

 16/11/2022 Photo a Day Running Water

   The Macquarie River at Bathurst has been running vey fast most of the year and had has broken it's banks many times this year but this week was the highest it's been since 1998

 11/11/2022 Photo a Day

 10/11/2022  Photo a Day  Power lines

 7/11/2022   Photo a Day  I didn't make this

   Amish quilt bought in Lancaster County PA

 6/11/2022  Photo a Day A Fence

Glad there's a fence between this big cat and myself , Mogo Zoo last year

 5/11/2022   Photo a Day  A Bridge

 This bridge is two blocks from the CBD in Bathurst and this photo was taken just two days ago , it is named after the founder of Edgell's who built the original bridge to transport vegetables to his cannery her in Bathurst.

 4/11/2022  Photo a Day For Sale sign

3/11/2022   Photo a Day Shop Front

   A local Patchwork Shop here in Bathurst

 2/11/2022   Photo a Day Book Cover

     Current read

 1/11/2022  Photo a Day  A Collection

    thimbles from all ove the world , some collected by me and others are giftss from other travellers

 27/10/2022  Photo a Day Bright

    I made this bright quilt at least twenty years ago , I still like bright modern colours and use them frequently

 26/10/2022   Photo a Day Pastel

 25/10/2022  Photo a Day  Light

 24/10/2022  Photo a Day  Dark

    Early in the morning in my street a few weeks ago

 23/10/2022 Photo a Day Natural

   With all the rain and a warmer weather everything is green but the lawn holds a secret , there are lots of weeds 

22/10/2022  Photo a Day  Matching

   Tim and Luke dressed for Christmas Day last year in matching outfits

21/10/2022 Photo a Day My fave colour

    I love yellow roses

 20/10/2022  Photo a Day  Rainbow

   These strips were cut out for a quilt I made some friends about 6 years ago now

 19/10/2022  Photo a Day  Black and white

 My brother Andrew is back row on the left , it's hard to believe he's been gone so long (45 years)

 18/10/2022  Photo a Day  Pattern

  I bought this pattern about 5 years ago and I have made the quilt

 17/10/2022   Photo a Day  Two colours

 16/10/2022   Photo a Day  One Colour

In 2006 my friend Sherree and I visited an Exhibition of Valentino's creations in Rome , the Mannequins were arranged in one colour groups but every design was different.

 15/10/2022  Photo a Day Floral

  Lots of Kaffe Fassett florals in this quilt

 14/10/2022  Photo a Day  Stripes

 13/10/2022  Photo a Day  Pop of colour

   I just love the colours in this quilt top

 12/10/2022  Photo a Day  Brown

  Brown is not a colour I use much in Patchwork but these fabrics needed brown !