The Ville Blog

Wednesday, July 30, 2008



Tuesday, July 29, 2008


Monday, July 28, 2008

Have to guess who these birds are - perhaps junior ducks? The usual suspects are black-headed and these don't seem to be,
so anybody's guess?


Saturday, July 26, 2008

Yesterday evening's setting sun through a curtain of slatted rain....

Friday, July 25, 2008

Dismal, cold, but never anything less than beautiful. How lucky are we!



Cormorant caught for a moment above water....

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Does the metallic colour of the Bay look cold and dismal? You're not wrong!



Winter palm tree, accessorised...

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Camelia season just goes on and on....

Monday, July 21, 2008

Such pretty little flowers and such a rotten plant in balance - fireweed....Daniel & I worked hard to pull it up over the weekend,
especially around our tube stock....



Cattle and cattle birds in symbiotic friendship....

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Exquisite moon-set on Saturday morning over Farmer Scot's property



Farmer Eve staking her little shrubs....


Ivy with purple blossoms from our original tube stock planting.


Bansksa at fence line....


Not sure the name of this one, but it's very leggy and healthy....

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

I spent the morning at Kylie's new abode in Greenwich and got a snapshot of Sky looking very sweet.
We unpacked boxes and got the kitchen done and the office half done.
The house's backyard is like the nature reserve that it backs onto, scattered through with playground equipment.
The neighbourhood kids thinks its all theirs.


Monday, July 14, 2008



Does Judy look pooped? Fair enough. So hard getting the kayak back through the mud at low tide!

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Blossoms on my Jade plant....



The wintry Bay....

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Even on a 7 degree centigrade winter's morning, our Bay is radiantly beautiful....

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Is that a pistil with your stamen or are just glad to see me? (Sorry ;))


Monday, July 07, 2008

Sunday, July 06, 2008

Saturday, July 05, 2008

A day for ducks...sunning themselves on our lawn....



You can see the flotsom on the lawn, washed up by the high tide....

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Don't have to go far to find a beautiful shot in Longueville....



Tulip trees blossoms are out in force, a touch too early?



Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Blooms remarkably surviving the huges drying winds of the last week....




Aiden's space still empty, since April 28th!

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Bronte ocean pool and rock pool, so very charming....



From our walk on the cliffs overlooking Bronte, Tamarama, & Bondi



Some visions are really quite unexplainabled...a bevy of beautiful Latin(?) women were being photographed...all ages from young to mature....