Spider Season

Orb spider - body is about 3cm - big

Keith dealing with webs spun across the path

We have got so many webs in the garden and the other evening we were putting out the rubbish bins when Fiona walked into a web, not intentionally of course. Then the next morning we came out of the front door and the spiders had started spinning webs right outside the door, probably wanting to keep us indoors, so this is what we found...

We also came across a redback spider (poisionous) while sweeping cobwebs off the window sills.
Not nice !

Its beginning to look at lot like Christmas

Even though we are not going to here for Christmas, we put up a few decorations

Spider attack

this one we ate ! Yummy !

do not know what type of spider this is, but look at how he
has made the zig zag pattern, so his legs look longer

We came out of our front door on Saturday morning and found a spider's web in early stages
of enclosing the front door, all down the path these spiders have been very busy setting up traps, so regretably we had to remove them.

More beach photos

Wollongong Beach

Here are some pics taken at Wollongong, Keith had to work and I went with for the ride.
He dropped me at the beach and joined me later for lunch.

Paintings

We were clearing boxes in the garage early this morning and came across Fiona's painting equipment with some things she painted a while back. Yes, she sketched and painted these herself, very arty farty.

Art on the Beach - 3

tribute to workhorse

recession

prelude to a wave

lost boy

Art on the Beach - 2

'Rat race'

'Waiting'

this one is called 'train kids'

Here are a few more pictures for the scupltures

Art on the Beach

this is called "Earth Elephant"

a bit African, carrying something called "Eight"

something looking at the ocean

House

this one is called "crab in the works"

This weekend we went off to see the beach scupltures, a bit different from what we were expecting.
We are going to put a few pictures on the blog in stages. It is very hot today, so we went down to the beach early.

Blue Mountains Hike continued

going up is always the worse

Views magnificient - Cable car in this pic

made it

stunning

the three sisters

These are a few more photos taken on our hike in the Blue Mountains

Katoomba Falls, Blue Mountains

another part of the falls

picture does not do it justice

Keith at Katoomba Falls

These falls were amazing, very tranquil and peaceful, well worth the detour on our hike.

Witch's Leap

Information

part of the waterfall

rock formation just after Witch's Leap

Another part of the waterfall

Witch's Leap is a waterfall in the Blue Mountains

The Blue Mountains

we were here

scenery

rock face

Fiona at Witch's Leap waterfall

Keith having a break

Today we did a hike in the Blue Mountains very tiring but good. There are lots of different routes and distances and difficulties (as steep climbs), we decided to start off on a medium route, about seven and half kms, lots of steps going down, but then you have to come back the same way, up !

Some of the pictures show how dense the vegetation is and seems to go on for miles (which it does).

Quilting

Give me a minute to think...

Taking a break from her writing, Fiona decided to make a quilt. She did a great job, her first quilt looks good, her mother would be proud. Another tick off Fiona's list of "Things to do before I die".