The Cherry

In March I'll have been in my current house for four years - time flies when you're wasting your life away. (As an aside there is now scientific proof that time does actually fly when you're having fun).

So I've been here for 3 Christmases and I noticed an exciting first on Christmas day just past.

When I moved in one of my neighbours told me about the trees in my backyard - from left to right, pear, cherry, peach.

I've never had any trouble with the pear and peach trees. Except for all the fruit that ends up rotting in the backyard cos I'm too lazy to regularly pick the ripe fruit.

But on Christmas day just past I noticed some little red things on the cherry tree - actual real honest-to-god cherries!

Naturally the cherries are all well out of picking range so will provide a nice dietary change for the local bird population. In fact since taking this photo, none of these cherries remain.

And of course the peach and pear trees are going strong as ever, getting ready to provide a bit more compost to the backyard.

The Peach

The other day I bought a new toy from TradeMe. It was one of these. I already have one, but it's older and very unreliable. Along with my new 545i, I also received most of a box of colour polaroid. Considering the film alone costs almost $200, the fact that I got the lot for less than $100 was a bargain. Thanks TradeMe. And the kind seller.

Naturally I had to try it out as soon as I got it home. That's a shot at the top. The one above is almost the same but I tilted up a fraction.

This is my first real attempt at polaroid transfer. Seeing as I didn't have much of an idea of what I was doing it's not too bad. It's bad. But not too bad.

I do have a regular reader who is more experienced in the process, but she doesn't seem to have any on her website.

And while we're still on this polaroid trip, here's a cool polaroid site - especially if you are a polaroid shooter.

The Reminder

Aaahhhhhh, I remember the days when the peach tree blossomed and fruited ...

and you could hang the washing on the line ...

and it would dry.

Good times. Good times.