My March Memories

March 2016

These are the memories I want to share

firstly

with my family overseas,

and also with you my dear blog readers,

a few little snippets

 of our life over the past month.

We attended a wonderful celebration for

the marriage of

Claudia and James

on

12 March 2016.

That was the same day as my husband's birthday

so a double celebration for us! 

Thank you for your visits.

I am behind with my visits to your blogs

 however, at last I have a

relatively free weekend, 

so I'll be over to see you in the next day or so!

Take care and

be kind to one another

à bientôt

Shane

Spring Inspiration

Over the last couple of weeks

I've been inspired by your posts

welcoming the arrival of Spring

in your neck of woods!

Of all the seasons

Spring is the one we long for the most.

"O wind, if Winter comes can Spring be far behind?"

                                                               Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the Northern Hemisphere
you've come through a very harsh Winter.

I've sensed your longing for
the first signs of Spring ...

and now all of a sudden there's a great flurry 
with talk of trips to the garden centre.
I've seen photos of your trolleys
laden with pots, plants and packets of seeds,
fertiliser, mulch, and even a new garden fork!

So the cycle begins again

of planning, preparing and planting

your gardens

for the long awaited Summer display!

The regular readers of my blog

will already know that I live in

New Zealand, where 

Autumn has arrived in all her golden glory...

so I have dug deep into my archives to

bring you these photo memories of my

glorious Spring from a couple of years back!

I'm joining Mary's "Thursday's Inspiration"

the prompt this week is "Spring"

and

Bernideen's "Open House"

and
Kathy's "Home and Garden Thursday"

I hope you will pop in for a look!

Kathy is also having a a beautiful
Rose
inspired Giveaway here

À bientôt

and be kind to one another

hugs

Shane ♥

Coastline Trees....

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.....

                                                                                      Rabindranath Tagor

A blustery day on the North coast.

I took these photos during an early
morning walk along the ridge,
about two hundred feet
above the sea. 

The trees are called Manuka
our native version of
tea tree.

They are quite shallow rooted
but somehow they hang there
as if by one thread
connected to the soil.


Today I'm joining Mary
for Thursday Inspiration
where the prompt is
Tree


Thank you for your kind comments

À bientôt

Be kind to one another

hugs


Shane ♥

MY BLUE TEA SET

I've loved this tea set forever

as it was part of every

family gathering as I grew up.

My darling mother treasured it

and she wouldn't trust anyone else

to bring it down safely from the

top shelf of the kitchen dresser.

It holds such happy memories

of many lovely coffee mornings

and afternoon tea parties.

Mother had several lovely

china tea sets

but this 'Spode Camilla' set

she loved the most.

This is the one she brought out

for special family occasions!

Being the only daughter in our family,

most of her lovely china

was passed on to me.

I in turn will pass it on

to my daughter.

It is used every day now and

I treasure it dearly - it never

goes in the dishwasher

but is carefully washed by hand!

Today I'm joining

 Mary for Thursday's Inspiration

Bernideen's Open House Thursday

Claudia's A Favorite Thing

Terri's Teacup Tuesday 

Martha's Tea Cup Tuesday

Sandi's  Tea Time Tuesday

Kathy's A Delightsome Life

Please make a cup of tea
and pop in to say hello!

Terri of Artful Affirmations blog
is having a beautiful Giveaway to
celebrate her new class
Soulful Adornments here
the winner will be chosen on 1st May!

À bientôt

be kind to one another

hugs

Shane ♥

...his mother put him to bed and made some chamomile tea.

AND she gave a dose of it to Peter!

'One table-spoon to be taken at bed-time'.

Sky...

'I must go down to the sea again
to the lonely sea and the sky'...
- John Masefield   

A Skywatch post

During the Summer months
we spend a lot of time 
on the water and I'm always
in awe of the beauty
of the sky.

The sky in these last two photos

was translucent

and the colors were quite magical.

Today I'm joining

Mary for "Thursday's Inspiration" 

and Bernideen's "Open House Thursday" 

and Skywatch Friday

and Claudia for Favorite Thing Saturday

I would love you to visit

both these parties

to meet other like minded bloggers.

Why not join in - it's fun!

I meant to tell you

that down under in the

Southern Hemisphere

daylight saving ended last weekend

when we put our clocks back one hour

... sad to say goodbye to

2012/13 Summer!

Thank you for your lovely comments

and welcome to my new followers.

À bientôt
and be kind to one another
hugs

Shane ♥

Fences in France

I'm joining Mary's party

Thursday's Inspiration,

her prompt this week is "fence"
and
Friday's Fences

I enjoy photographing fences, 

doors, gates and windows.

This collection was

taken when I was in France

last year.

These last two photos were taken

in a beautiful park

in a small town in

Burgundy.

There was a little farmyard

section for the children,

so beautifully laid out.

I love donkeys but they 

always make me feel sad....

Only one more day of work this

week - thank goodness!!!

Can you tell I'm not used to it?!

I'm saving for my next trip

to France to see my little

granddaughters!

À bientôt

be kind to one another

hugs

Shane ♥

Laduree

Hello dear friends

today I'm joining Mary

for

Green Inspiration Thursday and

 Kathleen 

forSt. Patrick's Day Blog Crawl
(are you up to it)? and

Claudia
for
A Favorite Thing Saturday

With good Irish blood running

through my veins

I had to find a little

something from the

Emerald Isle too!

Wishing you all a very

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

on Sunday!!

Be kind to one another and

"may the luck of the Irish

be with you all"!

Shane ♥

A home needs books...

If you are a regular visitor

to my blog you will know I'm a

book lover.

I've also been lucky to inherit

some lovely old books from

my father 

a very dear bookish man!

Like this five volume set of

The History of England

by

Lord Macaulay

published in London in

1870.

Do you know, that while taking 

photographs for this post

I was leafing through the pages

and to my surprise I became
totally absorbed.

So I've started reading Volume I,
I love history

 but I had thought 

this tome would be too stuffy!

I'll let you know how I get on...

The covers of the books are old leather

and the pages are edged with

gold leaf.

"A room without
books is like a body
without a soul." 
Cicero

The image bottom right is
Lord Macaulay.

Today I'm linking to
Mary's - 'Inspiration Thursday' 
Debra's - 'Be Inspired Thursday' 
Bernideen's - 'Open House Thursday'
and
Claudia's - 'A favorite Thing Saturday'.


À bientôt

take care of one another

Shane ♥