Stopping for roadworks on the way home.

Sundog on Donnelly Street.

Bonito

There's a new resident at Elizabeth Avenue, a little (ok not so little) ginger furball named Bonito. (Also sometimes called Chiquito.) (Once known as Fergus.)

He is four years old and we adopted him through the local RSPCA. He's a pretty mild mannered, mellow cat, whose favorite activities are eating and sitting in the sunroom looking outside. He would like to go out but we've decided he's going to be an indoor cat as there's already one killer on the loose in the neighborhood. (Especially not when we're trying to turn our yard into a haven for birds!)

Sleeping in the sun room.

It's nice having him around but he's not a lap cat. While he'll follow you around begging for food during the day he's generally pretty chill at night and content to sit under your chair on or the sofa nearby. He likes attention (but not too much attention.) He's very different from Ramses and Garbanzo with a temperament somewhere in-between the two of them. I do certainly appreciate that—no matter how persistent he may be for morning tea and elevenses and brunch—he's very patient for his breakfast in the morning.

Furball.

Spring has sprung!

Cherry blossoms on Salisbury Street, Uralla

 Cherry blossoms and a wattle tree

Crimson rosella

Wattlebird in the green spring leaves

It feels like spring in our part of the New England Tablelands, with the paddocks turning green, flowering trees bursting into bloom and other trees beginning to leaf out. It is very nice to have some color in our environment again, and to hear the frogs at night and the birds in the morning. Spring truly is a lovely time of year! I have been enjoying taking photos of the blossoms around town immensely, especially since it seems as though I haven't had time to pick up the camera in a while.

More rain

More rain last week meant means wet paddocks and overflowing creeks. Friday night we had a big storm with rain and wind (with many trees down around town), Saturday morning we happened to be down by Dumaresq Creek:

Faulkner Street under water, under the pedestrian bridge.

It has been a wet spring: dam levels are up, the grass is turning green, and the waterfalls are overflowing. Hopefully we'll have a couple of dry days for this weekend that we can get some gardening done! We have plans to rototill the garden.

By Sunday the creek levels had returned to normal high.

The willows are also budding out in spring green.