The Sunday Creative

Definition…adj. 1. treated, affected, or crusted over by freezing  2. subject to long and severe cold 3. incapable of being changed, moved, or undone: fixed 4. not available for present use 5. expressing or characterized by cold unfriendliness

I'm not sure of this really fits! But it's 26/79 degrees here and humid with it so apart from taking a photo of the inside of our freezer this was the best I could come up with! Lloyd said it looked a bit like snow, when it is in fact my brand new white hydrangea.

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This week's prompt:

Lonely

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Lonely: 1. lone; solitary; without company, companionless. 2. remote from places of human habitation. 3. standing apart; isolated.

 I took this when Lloyd and I went to Rarotonga in August, but I thought it very apt for the prompt.

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This weeks prompt

OBSOLETE

 1.no longer in general use, fallen into disuse. 2. effaced by wearing down or away. 3. to make obsolete by replacing with something newer or better; antiquate.

 This is the skin from a cicada. I found it in the garden last summer, the nymphs shed their skin when they become an adult. We find these skins all over the garden in the summertime.

They are obsolete!

I think it's pretty cool - like a prehistoric monster.

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The Sunday Creative ~ Spiral

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This week’s prompt:

Spiral

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These are Pongas. 

They're all over the place here. We've got lots in the garden down by the stream, I love them. When their ferns come out they form a spiral. Very beautiful.

 

People here use the old trunks as garden edging as well. It looks very pretty.

Asparagus - The Sunday Creative

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This week’s prompt:

Nostalgia 

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 We used to have a very prolific Asparagus crop, but for reasons beyond my understanding this is what we get now...


 *cue hysterical laughter*

I am nostalgic for the good old days!




Nostalgia: n. a wistful yearning for something past or irrecoverable

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This week’s prompt:

Nothing 

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Nothing: 1. no thing {leaves to the imagination} 2. something that does not exist 3. zero

 Just as well I was up at the crack of dawn/6am for this one because this is a tricky one and what I had in mind will have gone soon and there will be nothing left. Well actually they will, most likely, still be there, but invisible without the dew and the low light. AND if you look at webs from a certain direction they disappear. So it's not really cheating!

 They are just so beautiful. I love thinking about the wee spider running around making them.

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This week’s prompt:

Abundance

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Abundance: from the word Abundant meaning more than enough: amply sufficient

Right now there is one very obvious subject matter for Abundance.

I have 9 chickens. Each day we're getting 8 eggs. 

I love it!

Don't you love all the colours.

The Sunday Creative - Comfort

Comfort vb 1.To give strength and hope

n 1. Consolation 2. Freedom from pain, trouble, or anxiety; also: something that gives such freedom

It's no secret I love our dogs. I let them sneak up onto the bed for cuddles quite a lot. They are comforting. There's nothing like a warm dog cuddled into you to make you feel good. And they make us laugh... so much!

What a sad place the world would be if we had no dogs.

Here's Lulah and me, snuggling.

The Sunday Creative - Timeworn

Webster’s definition is literally “worn by time”…

I armed myself with the camera - in my jammies, as usual -  and headed out and about round the farm. I hasten to add, contrary to the photographic evidence below, our farm really isn't falling apart!

now bear with me for this one... I reckon the feather was worn enough by time that it fell out!

The Sunday Creative - illuminate

Rather aptly this was the last night of our holiday. The sunset was just beautiful. The video is in real time - sun goes down fast in the Tropics!

The Sunday Creative - RAW

Raw: adj 1.Not cooked  2. Changed little from the original form; not processed  3. Having the surface abraded or irritated  4. Not trained or experienced  5. Vulgar; coarse  6. Disagreeably cold and damp  7. Unfair

  For the Sunday Creative I try to 'do' the first thing that pops into my head when I see the word. For 'raw' it just had to be garlic! I don't know why, but it just popped right on in there and there was no stopping it! I do love garlic.

We grow our own and it's terribly satisfying. We keep cloves from the previous year and plant them the following year. By doing this we've managed to keep some heritage garlic going.

Rule of thumb for planting garlic...plant shortest day, harvest longest day.

This is our own, it's an old heritage  one called Takahue.

The Sunday Creative - SHAPELY

Shapely adj: Having a pleasing shape

Doesn't get much more pleasing than this...

I love the shapes the petals make as they all fold in on eachother. Beautiful.

The Sunday Creative - NAKED

It's funny how our minds work. When I hear or see the work naked I always think of trees in winter! Obviously I have a very clean mind. ☺ But it's how I feel they look - naked and somewhat cold. I'd like to make them a nice cosy winter coat.

TRADITIONAL

Traditional ?

I'm from the Northern Hemisphere. I lived there for the first 30...odd years of my life. Christmases looked like this.

 This is the garden at my parents house, it's where I grew up and even after I left home I only missed one. I'm used to Christmases looking like this. To me this is exactly what they should look like. This is what is traditional.

Now Christmas looks like this

 I'm a Southern Hemisphere girl now. Can I get my head round it? No. Do I think I'll ever get my head round it? Probably not! Don't get me wrong, we have a great time here. Christmas is spent with friends - who are our family - but it feels more like a lovely summer party. If I could transport myself back to Scotland for one day every year I would choose Christmas day. I loved the tradition of it. The cold weather, the snow, the roast turkey, cranberry sauce, brussell sprouts and huge stodgy Christmas pudding with brandy butter to finish it off. Family opening of presents in the morning, the darkenss! I loved it all.

I'm often asked if I would fly back for Christmas. Would I? Probably not. It's the best time of year here and I wouldn't actually want to miss a couple of weeks of it! But do I feel like I've had a proper Christmas in 5 years? Probably not.
Am I complaining? No. Really I'm not!
Would I like it to snow on Christmas day...a freak once in...well ever...for Northland? You bet I would!

Connect

I've joined in. ( click pic above)  It'll be fun, make me think and put me in touch with even more blogs to read.

Lulah's nose.

It connects her to me. If she can't see me she can smell me. She can always find me.