I can't think of a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than to lie on a picnic mat in your backyard. Particularly during a balmy Brisbane winter when the sky is blue, it's warm in the sun but cool(ish) is the shade. We had a top of 23 degC today in the dead of winter, brrr. The most beautiful day you can imagine.
I didn't sleep well saturday night and I can feel a sore throat starting and a cough (...what's that? oh, just the violins accompanying my woeful tale... never mind them...). After lunch I spread out a picnic mat and carried down some pillows.
Before I fell asleep I looked up into the 'Prickly Tree' or, more commonly known as the Norfolk Island Pine that someone, many years ago, had the good sense to plant slap-bang in the middle of the yard. I love it.
... and will happily fore go a pool to keep the tree. It provides so much backyard shade as well as a home for for birds...
So I looked up into the tree and dozed in the winter sun. At one point J joined me and I marveled at the colour of her glorious hair...
The girls under the cubby house wandered over for a visit and I marveled at the colour of their glorious feathers... black and green and red and purple... beautiful...
...the camera does no justice to their magnificence.
And I watched them scratch the garden onto the grass...
...again. A good reason not to remodel the garden and do that landscaping we're always talking about. I watched them for a while actually. Boring? NO! Never. I even videoed them for a while not noticing the noisy neighbours, loud lawn mowers or aircraft noise until I played it back.
I'd attach said video to this post but there seems to be some kind of technological barrier... shame, the girls gave an oscar winning performance and my directing was second to none. I wish you could see it, I also wish it was still a sunny Sunday afternoon and not this cold, overcast Monday. There's those violins again.
