Midsummer in January

Thank you for comments! Generous comments, too, thanks!

I last blogged in November. I get distracted easily from updating. I go online and there are so many ways to go, so many fascinating things to learn, so many pictures to see and stories and news items to read. And suddenly ¡flooolf! an hour or several hours have evaporated, a fair thwack of it just waiting for pages to load up.

Fingal, you see, really is rural. It's beautiful here and we love it, but we don't have broadband easily available. Reasonably priced broadband doesn't even seem likely. Sigh. But we have clean air and distances to see into, and the winds blow from the four quarters: at 41°38'S 147°58'E we're in the path of the Southern roaring forties.

At the moment I'm making the delicious decision of what photie fresh from the garden to share with you. The bean patch? the plum tree? the nashis? Can I get them all? maybe more? ... yes, this looks like the one. Here are pumpkins, too, and even the clothes tree which bears prolific crops year round as well as the aromatic yellow-flower'd curry plant.