Lots of photos… not many words.  We’ve taken few days out to spend time with Rob’s parents and this time the weather has been kind to us!  Phew no ‘trapped-in-doors-with-small-children’ days.  Just warm sun, cool, cool nights and morning frost, as you have seen already.  Good times to get the girls out and take some happy snaps.

No shipping containers this time…  just icy water and warm sun.

Kids in bare feet can you believe it!  It was freezing today.

Wheel shells.

I just wish I had my sewing machine *sigh* it could be a tad unsociable though I suppose.

This morning, frost!

Freshly mowed lawn.

Yes, it was cold, yes it was beautiful.

Winter is pretty mild just now, we’ve enjoyed the fire most days, just to take the chill off, and we’ve seen a couple of mornings like this one.

So far I’ve been hard pressed to get myself and the small ones dressed in time to run around on the field…

For a day that started out like this

It was a great day for a winter beach wander.  One of the best things about Waterview is being minutes from Pt Chev, and the BEACH.  Not my pick for a swim, but plenty of shells and sand to get into and on you.

How lovely is this?  I left the washing in the machine and we took off, grabbed some sushi and got in the sand.

The water was so still.

Luna is into shells and wanted to make a sand castle, sand was collected from along the beach until we found the spot for the sand castle, then it was a long slow walk back collecting scallop shells…

Cool thing is she remembers many more shell names, and we’re able to do more with these finds, washing and learning about the animals.

I’m looking forward to spending more time investigating with her, we got out one of my shell books, and found pictures of what we found today.  Mostly scallops!

Such a fun excursion.

Such a cold morning, and so, so beautiful, I snuck out to take some photos of the back yard.

So still.

Lichen.

Daisy.

Web.

Rosemary doesn’t mind the chill.