Today is the best place to start with your greatest plans. #courage #noprocrastination #daretobebrave

Howard is out all day. He is preparing for hay baling and harvest. We are both taking orders for our bulk products and preparing storage. After the rain last week there is an air of optimism. Summer is making its way into the softness of spring, the trees are covered in leaves again and the flowers are adding colour to the garden. Everything has come to life. It is really lovely out here at the moment.

Quite a distraction actually!

What I would like to commit to this week is courage.

The changes we know we need to make, cannot be put off until tomorrow.

Yesterday I attended a service in celebration of my dear friend and neighbour Helen. Helen lived 20kms from me along a dirt lane that I loved to travel to see her. It seemed appropriate to listen to  classical music while looking out across the hills towards her home. We would drink tea in her garden, collect plant cuttings and talked about all sorts of things with the birds dancing around us. Helen was a mentor to me and very ahead of her time as a countrywoman, living with passion, creativity, intuition and definitely courage. She was an incredible entrepreneur and a dear friend who always asked me to bring over my writing so I could read it out loud. We would sit under her trees and hear about each others lives, coming up with business ideas. At one stage I was offering massage treatments in the cottage, in Helens incredible garden while she offered high tea, as my girls played fairies. I will miss Helens spark and her joy but when back in her homestead yesterday, the tea was flowing again and I realised that she very much lives on, in her family and friends and in her garden too.

‘Dare to be brave’ Helen would say and she walked the talk.

And so I shall live courageously giving my ideas wings this year and cutting off the dead wood that are old unhelpful habits. Lets see what happens! Fun !!

Big discussions in the paddocks on late evening sunsets

 Ready for a day of writing. Time to get the final draft ready!!

 The lovely Woollahra Library and its view!

Love the Archon Design products at the Woollahra Markets!