A lovely Sunday in October

Today I went to 'The Barracks' to go to the cinema and have lunch. This is the renovated old police barracks at the top of Caxton Street.

I arrived early to have a coffee before I met Ron and Stephen to see the latest Woody Allen movie "Midnight in Paris'.

So many lovely things
The first thing I saw was this lovely shop.

Another view

So many beautiful things.

Peasant Restaurant 

After the movie we had fabulous tapas and white Sangria. Home for a sleep, then a lovely walk in the park - one fabulous day.

Another Palm Tree - found in Cairns

Lipstick palm

I just love palm trees and was very excited to find this lipstick palm named for it's red trunk. It only grows in the tropics.

Todays garden delights

After the rain of this past week the veggies and herbs are growing like crazy. I ate beans, lettuce, rocket and radishes every day.

This mornings crop

There is so much parsley of both varieties that I have had to cut it and use is in vases in the kitchen in stead of flowers.
This morning I had scrambled eggs with wilted spinach ( just pout a kettle of boiling water over it in a colander' and I was eating it less than 15 minutes of it being picked. Can't get fresher than that.

Elandra Resort-South Mission Beach

The Lobby

The Pool deck

The view from our suite

The resort is on South Mission Beach 2 hours south of Cairns

Sunsets

The setting sun

This shot was taken from our top terrace. The colours were much brighter than this.

A minute later

This were taken during the smoke haze last week. Lovely atmosphere.

The refurbished screen

I acquired this screen from a friends 'throw out pile' about 10 years ago. It has woven slats and worked just fine to keep the summer sun from my books in the sunroom. Then one afternoon after about a year of good service, we had a big storm and the wind blew it down and smashed most of the slats.

This is it's second incarnation since that time.

3rd refurbishment

Mark painted it white for me and gave it a 'shabby chic' look and glued pink and white mattress ticking to board and nailed it on the frame. This made it very heavy so it didn't blow over again.

This time I stapled the fabric to the frame and used hot glue to trim with white cotton rope to cover the staples. It is now all fresh and new again. Hopefully this will last for a few more years.

Lunch September 2011

Table decoration. 

Our volunteer nasturtiums came to the rescue for the table decoration.

I haven't had a lunch out side since last summer. when I planned the menu early in the week I didn't expect it to be so unseasonably hot.

The table

By the door

I really like this little arrangement near the back door. It looks so welcoming.