Inedible

Step-nephew's wife asked for a strawberry hat for their child. Why do people want to wear stuff that looks like food?

Work in progress.

One of my fellow Pilates apprentices grows flowers. She gave me a gorgeous bunch of rununculus and freesias - gorgeous scent - on one of my trips to Nelson. They are nearly two weeks in the vase now. How good is that?

Pumpkin colours.

It's nearly Halloween season in cultures that make a thing of it these days - All Hallows Evening. It is followed by All Saints and on the third evening (because trinity seems to be a theme in Christian spirituality), All Souls. I was reminded of this early today while cutting up my second last pumpkin of our last Autumn

Bright orange. Sweet. Luscious. Easily my favorite cooked vegetable. I snack on cooked pumpkin. Strange woman. I have frozen some to deal with pumpkin-snack-withdrawal season (known to the rest of the world as 'summer'). Chilled mashed pumpkin....

Roofing contractors were filling the air over our bay with their sounds. I could hear their compressed air guns while teaching Pilates indoors a few 100 metres away.

We have two forths of a house roof - the lean-to front and back