Images from Christmas Day

 The day started off seemingly fine - warm with the promise of rain and some possible hail...

We started eating and general merry making... As with all Christmas dinners we were well into the afternoon by the time we got to the pudding...

By the time it took to serve the pudding and eat it - this weather was already on us... One of my daughter's friends who had had Christmas lunch with us and had left just after pudding was caught in the deluge as she approached the city - her car was battered with hailstones the size of golf balls - she said she was still shaking when she got home...

I stood outside taking these - the clouds were so low - it seemed you could almost reach up and touch them...

This photo doesn't show how fast these clouds were travelling and just how swirling and menacing they were...We could tell that somewhere not too far away was really feeling the brunt of this storm...

A little while after this was taken it bucketed down - soaking rain - with large hail - our gutters overflowed and the garden was saturated... I think it rained and thundered for the best part of five hours before it came to a complete stop...We were lucky and very thankful - I have since learnt that others were not so fortunate...

Another Christmas Day in Melbourne...

Until later, take care...

Sharon x x

t'was just before Christmas...

From my family to yours... May you all have a peaceful, joyous and safe Christmas 2011...

Moments - but not a stitch in sight...

This little this figure that E bought for me mirrors my own state of mind of late... She - like I -seem to be looking - either forward to the future or is it  back to the past - I'm not sure which... Christmas time - over the last few years - seems to bring this reflective side of myself to the fore... One could ponder on why - but like for many of us 2011 has not been without its challenges... I am hoping - again like many of us that 2012 will be kinder... But something tells me - as always - it will be as it will be...

I have been looking at shapes lately and of course it is also an excuse to try and the camera part of my new phone...

Of course we all  recognise the Hills Hoist (rotary clothes line for overseas readers) How many tons of clothes have been hung over its lines over the years... I really liked this shot of the centre of its strength silhouetted against  the fading daylight...

This is part of the ceiling I walk under every morning on the way to the shop where I work... It too has a beauty all of its own... I like its strength but also its fragility... It reminds me a little of an insect's wing - strong enough to hold and carry - but also delicate and fragile...

Theses are simply flowers from my garden - beautiful in the own right...

These ones where almost too dazzling to photograph - their colours seem to 'vibrate' and 'dance' before me as I photographed them..

And lastly, the remnants of the evening sun 'catching' on the leaves as it sets..

Until later, take care...

Sharon x

blogger problems...

It seems that I have discovered the problem with my blog... Apparently, and I am still to figure out why - my new phone 'stole' all my blogger photos when I connected it to my computer... When I (not realizing what had happened) deleted the photos from my phone storage - it also the deleted those photos from my blog... Go figure.. Some of the photos are gone for good - some I may be able to retrieve from my achieved albums - crazy stuff!! Will I bother? Not sure yet - lately I haven't had much time to do anything and I am finding it more difficult to thread a simple sentence together after the work days I have had lately... More crazy stuff!!!!

Perhaps it is a message from the greater blogging gods... That remains to be answered... Until later, take care...

Sharon x

 ** Arlene the bunny photo is for you... I made this earlier on in the year over on stitchin fingers for a postcard swap

What the!!

Looks like something has gone astray here... Not sure what the problem is and how I can fix it... Nor have I the time to try and fathom it... Until later, take care...

Sharon x