Spring has come...

 ...and brought with it the new life and fresh energy that makes it my favourite season. Here are a couple of photos I took today. 

These first 4 are photos of an ornamental cherry tree we have that has just begun to blossom. As usual, my photography is, at best, poor, but these photos were the best that I could do in a strong wind with a camera that had no manual focus (not that I would have been capable of using a camera that had). Ever tried photographing closeups of blossoms in the wind? Take my word for it when I tell you it's not easy...

Melinda, who is nearly 4 weeks old, with her littermate Buster in the background. 

 

Tristan, also known as Eloise. (Sorry, Bethany, I've forgotten what you named the other two.)

Buster.

Tristan aka Eloise again. This is my favourite of the litter. I know it doesn't seem right, but I just can't help having favourites!

 Tristan again. He's THAT special.  

I'm a fail blogger...

Yes, I realize how slack I've been. It seems like I haven't blogged for months. Life, as usual, has been moving too quickly to let me spend time blogging. As a matter of fact, I have hardly gotten any schoolwork done the last couple of weeks. About the only thing I HAVE done in the past week is music. And spending long hours sitting on the bus. In the past 8 days (last Tuesday to this Tuesday) I have spent over 22 hours travelling between here and Canberra. We had our 2'nd MuST workshop this week, as well as a separate Aboriginal music culture workshop (which was very interesting to say the least...).

As well as that I'm still adjusting to having to practice 2 instruments, getting used to the responsibility of leading Ensemble, and trying to get schoolwork done somewhere in between all of that! The good news is that the holidays are coming up, and with no music-related events for 2 whole weeks, I just might get time to blog again and show you photos of the latest litter of kittens.

Having said that - I must apologize for not doing a 'proper' post. Like I said, hopefully I'll find some time to do one next week. Thank you to all those who still read this.

Kitchen Capers

This is what happens when Mum leaves the house and leaves me in the kitchen with 2 hyper-active toddlers...

Joseph: just being his usual self. Caleb is becoming frustrated.

 

Joseph again being 'normal'. Well, normal for him.

 Joseph: "I have a brilliant idea!" Caleb shares his enthusiasm.

Back to work while I start working on Joseph's masterplan.

And here it is - a mega cookie! Yes, he is the coolest 4-year-old alive! Why didn't I think of that years ago? His hand shows a size comparison here.

After being cooked...

Smelling very tempting...

A proud moment! I felt like one of my [very many] life goals had been accomplished with the completion of this mega cookie.

The finished work of art...

My first attempt...

At creating a piece of music from scratch using only electronic devices. Let me know what you think!