Women at work…

At dark thirty in the morning

three generations

of this family's women went to work…

My 82 year old mother…my 15 year old daughter…and moi.

To help construct a Habitat for Humanity home.

With a whole slew of other women from the community.

see the whole line-up of darling homes down the street?…all community built…every nail.

Today it was all women. Sisters, grandmothers, mothers daughters…

Building hope and home for a deserving family.

When the noon whistle blew…the family who we were building for served us lunch

homemade tamales. yum.

thank you Senora Vargas!

We learned, we worked shoulder to shoulder...

We built.

Habitat for Humanity…advocating for

simple, decent

and affordable houses in every community.

Help. Build. Belong.

you won’t be sorry.

Look For A Different View!

So one thing I like to do is find a different way of looking at a scene that's been done a thousand times before. Reflections, unusual angles, or just the videographers LCD screen! Hope his work isn't copyrighted, or he may sue me for using his material, even if it is just a fraction of a fraction of a second...

End Of Month View ~ April 2011

Rather late in the day but my efforts to take photos on the 30th April were thwarted by a rather gusty wind. At long last it calmed down enough yesterday for me to get out with my camera but I decided on a change of scenery for this month. I am sure that like me you are also getting fed up of looking at that overgrown castor oil plant that has been awaiting transplant for an age. So instead I am taking you back to the hellebore bank which I blogged about earlier this year here.  Now I am using artistic lisence and extending the garden boundaries slightly for this post. As I wrote in my earlier post "Our garden is bordered on one side by a surface water stream - on the other side of the stream there is a sloping bank which rises up to meet the main road. This area is about 500 square metres and contains some twelve mature trees which were there before us". I am slowly trying to plant this unadopted area up ~ earlier in the year there are snowdrops and I am also introducing some hellebores. However every year completely unaided and unabetted by me there is a scene which takes my breath away, when for a couple of weeks the area is covered with a foamy sea of anthriscus sylvestris, commonly known as cow parsley. The odd bluebell is thrown into the works. I can almost imagine that I am living in the country instead of just off a busy main town road.

The end of month view is hosted by The Patient Gardeners's Weblog each month and is a excellent way of keeping track of the seasonal changes in your garden.

Sometimes you have to get down and dirty!

In this case it was down on my belly in the aisle of a packed church with people looking at me funny... but I got the shot I wanted!

Note to self: humility is good for me.

Off to Portland!!!

I'm headed to Portland for a Mother's Day weekend with my daughter and will be taking the train to Seattle for a birthday celebration with my Goddaughter and friend.   Happy Mother's Day to you!!!

Cafe Riche at Night

I took this a while back on a Canon 350D and the kit lens in crazy low light, hand held. It came out a lot sharper than I anticipated. It's a late night bar on the western side of Church Square in Pretoria, South Africa.

Peek - A - Boo!

P IS FOR?

Polygonatum odaratum ~  or to give the plant it's common names of 'Solomon's Seal', which I am sure that you will agree is much easier to pronounce.

This is one of my all time favourite plants and is flowering in my garden now. The pendulous white flowers tipped with green dangle gracefully down from arched stems. Pure perfection in the plant world as far as I am concerned.

Please pop over to ABC Wednesday where there's a promise that you will find more on the letter P.