TWO OF MY LOVES ......

Two of my loves are Nature (love taking photos of flowers, trees, the ocean, anything to do with nature), and the library, my kids call it my second home.  The library is a great place to study and also a great place to find good books, which as many of you know, reading is just about my favourite thing to do.

The other day I was down at the Tea Tree Gully library, had my camera with me and captured these shots.  I love that the council have put so much thought into the gardens they have planted surrounding the buildings.  Lots of shade and I love natives.  It offers a cool place to go when it's really hot and is so nice to look at ... and if you are lucky enough and can park in the spots near there, some of the trees even offer shade for your car while you're in the library ..... BONUS.  We are creatures of habit, we humans, or at least I think we are and I don't know about you, but I like to park in roughly the same spot all the time ... oh heck that makes me sound a bit obsessive, but I'm not really.  My daughter thinks I'm crazy, but there is one spot in the car park that to me, is the perfect parking spot.  I call it 'My Parking Spot'.  Miss A constantly reminds me that it's not my parking spot, but I like to think that it is.  Does anyone else do this? ... or am I the only one that's crazy here.  I'm usually inside the library for 2 hours or more so I've decided I need a shady spot and that's the one, most especially on a really hot summer day.

They have also been so kind as to think of the native animals that might live in the area and have planted a box up in the gum tree right near the entrance.  If you look closely you can see it, even if I didn't at first.  I'm sure that box has been there for ages, but I've never noticed it until the day I took these photos.  

I'd love to actually see a possum in there one day, although I'm sure being a nocturnal animal, I'm not likely to see one anytime soon.

BACK TO LIFE AS WE KNOW IT .....

Well once again I'm back to life as we know it. You know, the everyday things that we have to do ..... like go to work .... and if I don't then I won't have any money to live. Cleaning the house, organising life in general, making sure that the rubbish bin gets put out.... and the list goes on.

Funny how you take a week off from things, but when you come back the things that have to be done don't take a holiday from you. Interesting thought .... now wouldn't that be nice :-). But not to be. There is always something that needs attending too, no matter where you are and what you do.

It's nice to take a break from the riggers of life from time to time, but in reality life goes on. I have thought about this and how much I love to take a break; have a holiday and just do nothing. But then I think how boring that would be. How much I would hate it if I could just lay around doing nothing all the time. I know I wouldn't like that, I wouldn't enjoy it at all. Oh, I could read a book for a while, or go swimming at the beach, or laze around in an armchair and sleep away my life, but then ultimately I know I would become very bored and feel very lazy, which is not a good look in anyones mind.

So I've decided that in reality I actually like to be busy, but not so busy I can't stop to smell the roses once in a while. I think that is very important. We need to have balance in our lives. Without balance we become lop-sided.

My ideal way of relaxing is to lay in the shade in a hammock on a sunny day .... lay in the shade of a beautiful tree, grass underneath my feet. Not only to feel the warmth of the air, but to feel the coolness that I am afforded by the shade. I also love the feel of the rocking motion as I lay in the hammock .... it is a gentle soothing motion. Most importantly though I must have a book at hand so that I can read. Reading transports me into another dimention, another world, and takes me away from the stress of life.