To my children’s intense joy, there was a fairy garden at the Tesselaar Tulip Festival. Underneath two huge trees, surrounded by bright florals, all sorts of tiny treasures could be discovered.
From the small gnomes in their home,
to little mushroom men
and tree houses and walkways between the trees.
Definitely a magical experience for my children.
The yellow tulips were definitely the dominant flowers at the Tesselaar Tulip Festival, but there were tons of other colours as well.
There were pinks and purples, reds and all sorts of mixes.
We went to the Tesselaar Tulip Festival today. It was a beautiful, bright and warm spring day. You can’t ask for better if you are going on an outing, though not ideal for photography. But with all that colour, I couldn’t resist.
The kids ran up and down between the rows of tulips. Yellow was one of the more dominant colours.
My oldest quickly spotted bees flitting between the tulips. Can you see it inside the flower?
The bee flew from flower to flower, then it was off…
I will post more of the photos of the other colours tomorrow.
I tried several experiments to get a photo for our luminosity assignment for class. One I tried was photographing bubbles. Doing it on my own didn’t work so well though. Best I could do was to capture one at a time. (and drench my self in solution)
Finally I had to give up and wait until my husband came home, so he could blow and I could shoot.
It was already quite late in the day, so there was not a lot of light left. It did end up with some interesting reflections though.
Can you see our house?
Something completely unrelated to photography, but very good for when you have a down-day.
This is my recipe:
600ml thickened cream
1 tin (397g) of caramel
5 bars of peppermint crisp chocolate (65g each) – crumbled
5 ml peppermint essence
20ml caster sugar
2 packets (250g each) of Nice biscuits
Pack a layer of biscuits in a rectangular dish. Put a layer of mixture over the biscuits. Repeat until you don’t have any mixture left. (The cream mixture should make the top layer.
Crumble the last of the chocolate over the top. Refrigerate for about 8 hours.
You can find a more tradition version at Cooksister.
Since daylight savings has taken effect in Melbourne, I now arrive at class with the sun still high in the sky.
The rowers are practicing on the Yarra river every evening. Here you can see the MCG in the background, behind the St Kilda rd bridge.
The weather is very changeable. From sunny
to hail (I think – almost looked like fine snow) within half an hour.
The Eureka building is across from class, so we all grabbed the chance to take a photo of this unusual type of rain.
I was experimenting for an assignment. Dug out my kids’ marbles and took these photos by the window.
