watching a small spider create a work of art
(and yes, that is actually sunshine sparkling off the strands of web) – summer has arrived here at last.
delighting in the beauty of flowers beginning to open
smiling at Toby having fun in the sun
and laughing at the collection of toys that have to go everywhere with him – it takes him a couple of trips to move them all each time!
And in between looking after home and family I've been sitting in the shade at the end of the garden and trying to finish off the pattern for the little pouch that I promised all of you lovely people back in April!
It's still in progress but hopefully will be done soon!
It's been mostly a happy, relaxing week now that summer has arrived properly. Hope you can say the same for your week too.
little cotton rabbits 
Beautiful pics Julie! Spiders webs are a work of art in their own right.
Pen x
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Beautiful photos Julie, I love the spider pics! 🙂
So glad Toby is having fun in the sun and that you are finding time to relax!
Love the yarn colours ~ naturally! 😉
Vivienne x
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Hasn’t it been a glorious week of sunny weather? Down South anyway… A lovely start to six weeks’ off!
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Considering how awful the weather was last week this week has been glorious fingers crossed it will continue.
Lovely photo’s as always.
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glad you are having a lovely week ~ such nice pic’s 🙂 So excited about the seed pouch project 🙂 Thanks so much for working it up as a pattern 🙂
haPPy day ,
crystal
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Gorgeous pictures of the spider web’s and flowers. Nice to see Toby enjoying the
warm day. Neat little pouches ☺
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Beautiful photos – so glad the sun came out for the school holidays.
Your notebook looks as full of hieroglyphics as mine!
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Toby looks like he is enjoying himself. Love the little pouch. Your garden looks lovely. Did you see the opening ceremony – the Queen with Bond was hilarous? Loved Mr Bean and the contemporary dancers – for 7/7 – WOW! Love Zoe x
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Glad that your summer is going well! Isn’t it lovely to have a bit of sunshine? I’m also fascinated by your black and plastic greenhouses, I’ve never seen any like that before. 🙂
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Thanks, my lovely husband made them for me. They are linkaboard raised beds with homemade polyethene fronts and insect netting to keep the caterpillars and other munchers off my veg!
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love your little shaded haven at the bottom of the garden x
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So glad that you have had a sunny week and Toby has had fun. Love the photos….You’ve got a white version of the Olympic Cauldron Petals in bloom! Fingers crossed for more sunshine…Jenni xx
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It’s lovely to see the sun again isn’t it , although as I write this we’re having a bit of rain. Spotted your little covered mug there too… very cute.Looking forward to your pattern xx
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Glad it has been a good week for you.
I love the photos of the spider’s web (I’m a failure at that)& your garden looks very well indeed.
Looking forward to the pattern too – hope another peaceful week lies in wait for you.
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Yay for the sunshine at last. I love the crochet throw, i am just starting to learn to crochet myself. Hugs, catherine x
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Your gardens are just lovely as always. How smart to put the paving stones under the swings!! Ours have turned into big patches of worn out dirt where the little ones have drug their feet. Brilliant!
And Toby……. I giggled when I saw him swinging sideways. And his pile of toys……. yes……. I get that.
I hope your summer with Toby home has been okay if not pleasant at times…..
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Good evening Julie!
I like this concept of snippets. They speak more eloquently, perhaps, of our everyday life and the joys we find than big chunks of days out and special occasions. Those snippets also reveal little truths; I can see how attentive to nature you are, how beautiful you have made your home and, of course, how much you love Toby!
Yes, that spider’s web is a work of art. At first sight it reminded me of a tree trunk cross-section with all its regular rings.
I am quite drunk on summer at the moment. It has a hint of possibility to it. I love evenings out in the countryside, lingering out late.
Have a beautiful week, Julie.
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Oh Julie – what lovely photos. I wish I’d taken those cobweb in sunshine shots – they’re gorgeous! x
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Lovely to read about your week…have been popping into your blog and wondering how you have been coping with Toby and his altered routine. Your garden looks fantastic, I’m green with envy. How vege patch was obliterated with liquifaction following the Christchurch earthquake; replanted it four months later only to have a second quake hit us…hoping for success this Spring.
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Hello Julie. what a wonderful place to spend the summer time. I am very loved of your rabbit,and i will like to knit one of them, but i don’t kow to knit very well and i would need a patern. Can you put the patterns for sail?, please, please!!!!!. They are wondeful!!!!. I like very much.
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I could ‘waste’ hours watching spiders spin … fabulous images Julie.
How lovely your garden looks, and what a delightful shady corner you have to sit and knit in. Here’s wishing you many more summery days in the coming weeks that allow you and Toby to ‘play out’ 😀
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Love those baby greenhouses! Been thinking about you and hoping the sun has been shining.
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such pretty pictures and such a peaceful retreat at the bottom of the garden. i’m so glad you’ve had a good week. here’s to more!
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Summer is such a wonderful time. I always enjoy visiting your blog and seeing your amazing pictures and projects that you are working on. Lovely!
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When I look at Toby, I am a little ashamed at the rush and jumble I have created for myself over these last months. I am like the spider, I guess, doing my best to work on a pattern much larger than myself and hoping that, in the end, though I cannot see it all at once as giant people can, it will still be what it should. I love to see your table full of notes and the beginning of something new. And the flowers – how grateful I am that they know how to blossom without my having to help them to it.
I hope that the weather and the peace holds for you a while, dear one.
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I absolutely adore these pictures – I know it’s Summer, but it really feels a little like Autumn for me at the moment…..all those spiders webs – every time I step out into the garden I end up with a face full of web or disturbing some poor little critter that has to start all over again.
Nina x
ps. gorgeous stitches.
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Gorgeous gorgeous photos from your garden and of your son and creative work 🙂 x
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I really love seeing your world thru your eyes. You always seem to catch the beauty in ordinary things. Thank you for sharing your sweet, gentle spirit.
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Lovely. What do you have over your planting beds? Is it netting for bugs, or plastic for a hotbed? I am inspired to try this.
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Your spiderweb pictures are gorgeous Julie. I’ve never been able to take a good spiderweb picture but I keep trying. Sounds like you’re having a lovely start to your summer holiday!
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Julie, always lovely to catch up with you….
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I was always so entranced by spider webs when I was little – I thought they were to do with fairies! Especially when they shone with rain. Thank you for sharing and reminding me how happy the world was then 🙂 glad you are enjoying the little bit of summer we’re getting! fingers crossed for more happy days! x Maggie x
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Great pictures and your garden looks fabulous!! We may have complained about the rain but at least the gardens have benefitted!! I love the look of your garden chairs. Do you remember where they are from or are they vintage ones? X
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Beautiful photos of the flowers. I hope you manage to get a relatively peaceful Summer holiday.
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looks fantastic.love all the pics especially of the garden and your lad…happy days
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Amazing photos and good t see Toby so happy.
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Julie, you were the very first one in blog land who inspired me to be brave four years ago and try my hand at a blog. Now, through the darkest of days and a very sad time, I am closing My Southern Heart in a week or so and wanted you to know. I have written my last blog post. My next blog will be called “Sweet Journey Home” and I truly hope you will follow me there when it is up and running. I have LOVED following your family. I have shared tears along with you about Toby and rejoiced with you when things were good. I have watched as your beautiful daughter grew up. I have ENVIED your amazing talent with those knitting needles! Anyway, I wanted to take a moment out of packing and say hello.
Love,
Dianne
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Hello there,
I just discovered your blog and love your beautiful photography. Also, your ‘misty mornings’ afghan is gorgeous! I’m learning crochet myself but would love to make something like this one day!
Hannah
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What lovely things you make ! I ‘m going to visit your page often after having discovered it – thank you for sharing what you craft 🙂
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What lovely things you make ! I ‘m going to visit your page often after having discovered it – thank you for sharing what you craft.
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