Aaah, how lovely is it to return to a beloved home after a long while away! The first opening of the door... the familiar smell of my house... the remembering of all the little possessions that make my home 'mine'. Seedpods on a bookshelf, a postcard tucked into the edge of a frame, a pebble found on a previous holiday sitting on top of the piano.
What I like most, though, is how I've just stepped from a darkening blustery European autumn into a fragrant pre-summer Brisbane blissfulness! The breeze feels like the sea, and it makes Christmas seems to be just around the corner. The jacarandas in my street are going all kinds of crazy and the jasmine just outside my doors is outdoing itself. The nights (through which I am finally sleeping after picking up a dreadful airport cold!) are scented and only-just-cool, and in the mornings I'm amazed by how many birds start singing so early. My feet are getting used to being bare. It's so good to be home!
What's more, the garden is absolutely full of self-seeded cherry tomatoes, perfect for roasting up with some garlic and onion to have on hand for spaghetti.
Yum yum yum! HOORAY ALL ROUND!
4 comments:
Holy crap E, that's a lot of tomatoes!
We have those cherry tomatoes too ... they just grow like weeds. Our chickens go berserk over them.
Welcome home Em!! Can't believe you come back after what sounds like the most amazing holiday to those tomatoes!! I've been tending to my two little plants for months and not a sausage...
Welcome home - there's nothing quite like that first moment you step into your home after a long absence, is there? The jacarandas in Sydney are now in full bloom (a little behind Brisbane) and the jasmine is almost overwhelming in our street. Wish I had those tomatoes!
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