new place

Hi, friends! It's been over two months since my last post.
I wasn't in the mood to say anything nor to show anything.
It will come back one day, I believe.

For now, I want to invite you to a new place to connect
with each other. I know, many of you have accounts on
FB and Twitter. I actually do too, but I don't really like
both. So when a few weeks ago the furor about Google+
was around, I wanted to give it a try.

I did nothing for a long while, when I finally got an account.
After lurking around for a while, I started to use it some
day ago. I think, I slowly get the hang of it and like it,
cause I can decide, whom I share my posts with - public
and/or my circle(s) and/or a single person and/or even
people, who doesn't have an account there (they'll got it
via email). The only shortcoming I'm seeing at the moment,
is that I cannot change my decision after I released the
post - the only way is to delete and re-post.

If you don't have an account yet, send me your email
address (please don't put it in the comment) and tell me who
you are (if you think, I don't know you ;) share your blog
or website or Etsy shop or how you found me, when you
just stumbled upon my blog) and I'll send you an invite.
If you already have an account and want to add me to your
circle, you can find me here. Hope, you'll join the fun (or not
haha - you can decide it for yourself!). And as I said above,
one day my mood of writing longer posts with pictures will
come back and you'll see me here again :)

surrected

Random plant parts, which I found lying on the ground on
my way home from the grocery.

Happy weekend, friends!

fauna & flora

I told my son, we should open up a pet shelter ;) One day
after Ella's visit, Franklin came to visit me. I wondered,
what would happen, if they met each other. Each of them
alone is the gentlest dog and cat, but together? Not sure
about that...


right: Franklin's waiting for me to let him out and go
back home

Last year I was excited, when I read this recipe on Etsy blog.
I went immediately to the garden, but it was too late - the
purslane were no longer looking good. So, I'm excited to see
them coming out again - I simply love edible weeds!



I also harvested the red currant and the strawberries. We
got lots of red currants this year (those in the bowl is 2/3 of
them - I left the other 1/3 to give the birds a chance to enjoy
them too). Last year the flowers fell off too early because of
the rainy weather, so only some few were left to fruit. Last
year's strawberries were bigger than this year's. Well, that's
probably my fault, cause I didn't give them fertilizer nor much
water in this dry weather (my philosophy is what survived fits
the climate and gardening should be fun, not only work - now
ask me, why I want to plant banana in my garden then LOL).



I washed and dried each berries and then put them in the
fridge. My son and I love to eat them pure and frozen
(although those strawberries from the first harvest were
turned into strawberry curd cheese - also yummm....!! :)).

weekend

We had a visitor this weekend. She had visited us once.
This time she stayed overnight. Since it's quite warm here
(we live under the roof - the heat of the house is gathered
right here and sometimes it feels like in the oven, sort of...),
it must be quite a torture for her. She slept most times. But
when she's awake, she nudged me to pet her by slipping her
nose under my elbow or brought me her toy :)


The plush ladybug (was once a lavender bag from the junk
food chain with the double yellow arch - yes, sometimes we
eat junk food ;)) is to distract her from grabbing other stuff,
as she loves anything plushy and shoes.

Hope, you had (and still have) a good weekend.

exploring

Either it was the weather lately which made me so tired all
day or I am simply old (and have to be prepared of some
off-days after working in the garden). Anyway.. two new
pieces for my art shop, from the "Exploration" series.

#1 is already in the shop and #2 is waiting in the draft to
get listed tonight. due to an accidental click is there too LOL
I love this new possibility to save a draft and today for the
first time I use the copy function :)



Hope, you are enjoying your Sunday!