Namadgi

Me and Chris went for a drive up to Namadgi National Park this afternoon.
Chris went for a jog up a track while I went on a mini photo adventure...
the bush was just *beautiful* ~ really growing from the last rain.















I really love the last picture ~ just how vibrant yellow the blossoms turned out while the ground looks black and white.

On the drive back, we came across a serendipitous little find ~ The Blue Roof Gallery! It is on the road between Canberra and Namadgi in a clutch of a dozen homes, an antique shop and a cafe by the Murrumbidgee River. The gallery was a lovely simple room filled with precisely picked works ~ my favourite being a monochrome photo of a naked woman lying on a bed of twigs, with her hand laying in front of the camera. Just lovely. The owner gallery was the piece's maker and such a down to earth being. Yay for serendipitous finds!

A good day in all.
A good weekend.
A good year.
A good life.
Love.

Lovely, lush, lumbunctious Saturday

just had a lovely saturday...

awoke to gleeful doggy licking my face,
then out in the beautiful sunshiney day:
voting in the state elections (labor set to win)
went to the library
found some three beautiful tops on sale (weeee!)

then this afternoon was Deb's birthday open house...
it was really lovely, her house is so so so beautiful...
she has an amazing rainbow mural on a wall,
and her home is just filled with crystals and buddha statues and beautiful things...
oh just oh so beautiful, i cannot begin to speak of the beautiful paintings and special things she fills her life with... *sigh!* I feel so delighted that my goddess painting is joining such a gorgeous household.

You can see the beautiful rainbow mural behind Lile, Deb and me...



and i met so many of her friends,
and they were all just beautiful, vibrant, talented women ~
so many were artists and healers and crafters....
such a yummy crowd!

and her two sons ~ 16 and 14 yo ~ were such loveable succulent young men!
just gorgeous!

i fell immediately in love with her beautiful dogs too ~
two gentle golden retrievers who padded softly about,
and had the most gorgeous, soft, lush fur...
fur you could just drown in, roll in, and fall asleep beside...



All in all, such a lush afternoon... Deb Deb Deb.
Let me count the ways I love you.
You, Princess of Hugs, Goddess Gaya, has so much inner beauty
that you attract and are surrounded with such outside beauty ~
your home, your boys, your dogs, your beautiful things, your friends...
I felt enriched just in those few hours eating fruit kebabs in your world!
Happy 40th love ~ so much good shtuff is coming your way!

then i drove my Lile home and we got lost and were giggling away
and i got home about 7
and me and Chris got yummy Subway and spent time together,
and now I am here!

a lovely day!

Deb's birthday picnic ~ gorgeous goddess get-together!

Tomorrow is my darling friend Deb's 40th birthday...
so me and the ever lush Lile made a little adventure for her to go on!
*hee hee hee*

By way of introduction, Deb is a goddess who works on the same floor as Lile and me. She has become such a dear friend, and I have learnt so much just by being in her presence. She is the greatest listener, has the most beautiful open heart, is understanding, compassionate, intuitive, oh~so~spiritual, and is the most succulent real life woman I know.

So today was to honour the special presence she is in our lives...

We got to work early, and proceeded drawing a trail of love hearts and angels in chalk on sidewalks across the city to a park...



then we put together a little "Adventure Pack" for her...



It had two small affirmation cards, some sesame snaps for the walk, a furry diamante tiara with fairy lights to wear on the walk, a map of coded directions to find the *treasure*, a twig we called the "Adventure Walking Stick" and a CD player with her favourite CD on to listen to on the walk. We gave this to her at noon and told her she was allowed to open it, and follow the instructions in it in seven minutes.

We left to get ahead and set up... a surprise picnic for her, in a relatively unknown park in the centre of the city. It is a massive roundabout, with three lanes of traffic going all the way around it, but in the centre is a forest ~ you feel quite secluded, and away from it all... just beautiful! It looks over the lake and Parliament House in the distance...



We waited for sight of Deb before coming out from behind the trees as a welcoming party...



We had a picnic set up for her, with salads and sparkling apple juice and caramel slice and a rug on the grass with candles and angel and SARK cards...



Deb is just such a beautiful soul... looking radiant in her princess tiara reading her SARK cards!



We made her hand made presents to honour her inner goddess...

Lile's handmade candles with pressed flowers were breathtakingly beautiful...



I painted a goddess portrait for her... Deb is just such an open hearted wondrous one I wanted something to paint her something whimsical and magical...



We ate, and lazed in the sun...


Me, Lile and Deb.

We blew on dandelions and made wishes...





It was a lovely lunch in the sun... filled with laughter, and words, and misty~eyed~ness, and joy...



Happy birthday dearest Deb.
You are the rarest of roses
and your blossoming is wondrous!



On our way back to work... Going up please Mr Elevator!


What a wonderful day.
And what a wonder to have friends such as these!
So many blessings ~ green grass, dandelions, wondrous friends, beautiful things, blue sky, and a surprise adventure picnic...