AWOL from Blogland....

To all my blogging friends I must apologise for not checking out your posts of late, or of even making the effort to put up posts on my own blog. The thing is I have had a major "Blog Blank". There doesn't appear to have been a whole lot to blog about, same old, same old. Get up, go to work, come home, keep warm, go to bed, get up...Blah,blah,blah......

I put it down to Winter, dark in the morning when I get up and dark when I get home. Just trying to keep warm uses up so much energy. And add to that the totally weird weather we have been having, I mean to say we have had snow in Auckland, in fact it snowed here in Waiuku where we live. "Okay," I hear you say, "what's the big deal, snow is snow who cares.  " Well we care...we live in a sub-tropical area, with lots of rain throughout the year, humid in Summer and cold in Winter...IT DOES NOT SNOW!! And boy was it cold, freezing, temps of -2dgrees celsius. Just to prove it here is a photo taken from our from verandah on Tuesday, it is snow, I tell you it is snow... ( well perhaps sleety sort of snow} If you look real close you can see the snow... And of course all the Spring blooms are early and have been destroyed by the cold weather..

Add to the cold Winter, the fact that I have been horrendously busy at work and when I get home all I want to do is chill out. But that is about to change, I am about to take a break, hop on a plane and visit my beautiful daughter Evette, my totally gorgeous grandchildren Emma and Lucca , and my wonderful son-in-law Jared.. I'm off to the States on Wednesday...Wahoo!!

Off to see these guys...

This photo was taken a few years ago, I will be making sure I get lots of current photos of them all together..

So, if I'm not visiting your blog or posting on mine, sorry, but I'm going to be a tad busy.

Shadow Shot Sunday..

The  neighbours over the back from us have a huge section covered in trees, something we are more than happy about as it gives us a lot of privacy. That is up until a few weeks ago, when one of the pine trees was cut down and revealed these two very old cars sitting in the long grass. I have no idea how long they have been there, or what make or model they are. But they made for some great shadows...

 

Thanks Tracy for hosting Shadow Shot Sunday, click on the link above to see what other shadow chasers around the world have been up to....

Shadow Shot Sunday..

We had some fine sunny days this week, thank goodness. It was so nice to feel some warm sunshine at long last. Late afternoon sun cast a nice shadow against the lounge wall.

 

These are some of the shells that I collected over Summer, a reminder of warm days down at the beach,  BBQ's in the evening and for us here "downunder" in the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas.

Have a great week everyone, and thanks to Tracy for hosting.......

Flowers on Saturday..

First signs of Spring...