Daisy Chains and Picnics

  I spotted this gorgeous butterfly on my succulents, hopping from plant to plant so I grabbed my phone to take a photo. As you would expect, it didn't stay still for long enough to get a lot of decent photos, as I was zooming in, most were quite blurry because I couldn't really see where it had moved to. I decided to try and get as close as possible without scaring it away altogether, when all of a sudden, it hoped onto my hand, as quick as I could I tried to snap some photos, to my delight it stayed on my hand for a good while, hopping from finger to finger so I was able to get some beauties of photos. How amazing are these 💓, I couldn't believe it! I like to think it was my dad coming to say hello and let me know he is with us always. I know that brings out a lot of skepticism in people about this sort of thing, but sometimes in the hard times and doubts it helps to believe that your loved ones are never far away from you 💙, it certainly doesn't hurt to have faith....

I was sitting on the couch today, which directly looks out of the lounge room door, just before lunch time checking Facebook on my IPad when I thought I had seen something walking past the open door, there was no noise and the dog didn't stir so I never thought anything more about it, a few minutes later something caught my eye again, walking back the other way, again the dog didn't stir, which is very unusual for him, he hears the least little thing, I got up to take a look, went into the kitchen, then into my son's bedroom, there sitting on his windowsill very calmly was a blackbird, not making a sound, I slammed the door shut and went out the back where it saw me and started hitting against the window trying to get out, I went back into the room and tried to get it out of the room as it was pooping all over the bed, I tired coaxing, pleading and talking to it, as if the bird understood me! haha!, I am sure if anyone heard me they would have thought I was mad!!, I was ...