autumn bloom

You'd be forgiven for thinking it's spring here, but no, I'm not on that side of the world.  I'm even getting the all too familiar sniffly nose and itchy eyes from allergies.  But the greenery and flowers are worth suffering the pollen.

Told you this number would get a work out.  Candy-stripe 50's dress in the lightest cotton.  Sandals are from Spain somewhere and are the type that give you nothing but pain for a month, and then are like a second skin.  My satchel and cardi are thrifted and I picked up the earrings from the Brisstyle market.

The mister calls this my 'light bulb' moment.  Well played.

So this is when we went for a stroll around the Brisbane botanic gardens at the foot of Mt Coot-tha.  I'm loving cacti and succulents at the moment and am slowly trying to fill the corners of the house with them.

I've a had few thoughts on safety: no cacti on bedside tables or near light switches where searching hands might find them eeeek!