Summer Colours Week: Blue

Today is the first full day of the school holidays and it's chucked it down most of the day. Grey has been the couleur du jour.  So it's nice to look at these pictures from the last few weeks!

 1. Miss Mouse's feet in the paddling-pool at my parents' house a few weeks ago.

 2. Forget-me-nots in my parents' garden.

3. A bumble-bee on a blue flower in my garden. No idea what the flower is, but there are more this year than last year and very pretty they are too. Nobody tell me that it's a terrifying triffid-like invasive weed, I have my fingers in my ears, lalala can't hear you..

4. Blue sky. Blue blue blue.

 

5. Knitted flower brooch made for Miss M's other teacher. I also did a dark purple one for the Boy's teacher but being dark purple it did not photograph well .

Actually the weather today hasn't been a problem - we haven't the thunder or torrential rain that other places have had, and the kids are pretty worn out after a hectic few weeks so a day just pottering around without having to rush anywhere has been, well, nice! The other day they signed up for Story Lab, this year's Summer Reading Challenge, so there have been noses in books, as well as dvds, computer games and other signs of poor parenting :-D. The biggest excitement was going to the café at the supermarket for lunch, and the kids loved that as it's been so long since we've done it.  

Next week I'll teach them to make pompoms, oh yes I will.

Summer Colours Week: Red

 Our first poppy. Miss Mouse and I planted these last year but nothing came up (I thought poppies were annuals?) but this looks like it'll be the first of quite a few.

Cat2 approves - there was a bee buzzing inside the flower. She couldn't figure it out so she had to have a look. As My Beloved points out this pictures makes the cat appear enormous - actually she's a small cat and the poppy stem isn't all that tall.

 Here's one from a few weeks back- the school building at the Highland Folk Museum -love the red roof and red 'phone box.

 And another from the same time - Miss Mouse heading for the paddling pool.

And finally salad with red peppers for my dinner. Mmmmmmmmmmm...

Summer Colours Week: Pink

And you want to know the best bit? I took all these photographs today. It has been a Pink Day.

First, the flower I knitted yesterday.

My paint-spattered mock crocs

Er, jasmine possibly?

Lupin the first. With raindrops naturally - it was a damp and misty day.

Lupin the second - love the colours on this one.

 And finally,  dianthus - I love this one because the missing petal makes it look like a butterfly, and the raindrops make the colours so intense.

Summer Colours Week: Yellow

Do excuse me going overboard for yellow but it is a favourite of mine. Who can resist a yellow watering-can? Not me anyway.

Thank goodness for gift bags. Today I was sorting out 'teachers' presents' - Miss Mouse has two teachers, just to complicate things.  Love the spots!

And now, dum dum DUM, flowers from my garden!

 Calendula

 Calendula again

 And another. With raindrops.

And another. These may actually all be the same flower in fact but I'm so in love with the intense colour and notched petals that I don't care - I have sunshine in my garden and I'm loving it!

And finally, ranunculus of some kind in my teeny tiny pond.

Also today I have also knitted a flower - not yellow - as one of the teachers' presents (not sure of the apostrophe there).  Tomorrow I shall knit two more. It's a surprisingly soothing occupation. Oooh, I'm sleepy.

Summer Colours Week: Green

Leaping merrily onto the bandwagon, I'm joining in with Poppytalk's Summer Colours Week.

And say what you like about rainy weather, doesn't it make the greens lush?

  

We've had sunshine and warmth too though - this particular little tiger doesn't care for a waterlogged jungle (*cough* that's our lawn..).