The weather in Melbourne has become mild and the sun warm. The ground is still damp from recent rains and the air smells of wet grass and treebark. The dark lowering clouds have begun to break up and the days have become longer, though the evenings remain chilly and we still run the log fire or the heating. Over the weekend we worked on some garden beds attempting to get the garden in order for Summer before the ground becomes too hard to work with. There's much confusion it its riot of disorder and Sunday was spent in yet another part of the garden, cutting down overgrown branches and clearing the ground of grass and weeds in dappled sunlight. Whilst Terry was cutting down one branch a possum jumped over his head and scampered up into a nearby tree and I'm not sure who was the most shocked!

A garden ornament amongs the plants