Inspiration Daily

Creature Comforts is one of my daily blog reads.

I look forward to their Inspiration Daily, eagerly awaiting the image to be discovered and the colours found in it.

Today was no exception:

Isn't it sublimely beautiful.

I'm having such a hard time deciding what flowers to use for my Birthday party on Saturday, 

now I have another idea to add to the list!

Personally, Tarquin gives me inspiration of some kind daily. 

I am truly blessed to have him, and to have a rental flat that will allow pets!

Here is tonight's photo: Tarquin has spent most of the day in this fluffy blanket.

I love my old man!

Tarquin

It has been a while since I have made a consistent effort to report my God Sightings to you. Part of it is that I have been really busy, but part of it is that I'm really not paying enough attention to it. Other things have been consuming my mind. And in all honesty, I don't think it has been very healthy.

In the last few months, there have been things in my life that have broken my heart. But even in this, God has been walking with me. He blessed me with a cute flat to live in, which is so close to church, great coffee, good florists, is surrounded by trees, lots of beautiful bird songs can be heard, but MOST importantly allows me to have Tarquin with me.

I've treasured coming home to Tarquin's welcoming meow. Sitting on the couch and having him come and sit with me the next moment, having dinner with Tarquin beside me and even having his whiskers shoved in my face at 3am, demanding to get under the covers. Incidentally, recently he has taken to 'pawing' my face. He puts his whiskers in my face, but I've ignored them, so to make his point, he 'paws' at my face - right where the covers are! I'm always amazed how insistent, yet gentle he is - he could easily scratch me.

Anyway, enough ranting on about my treasure, Tarquin. The point is, he has consistently been a God Sighting to me over the last few months. I have regularly thanked God for him, allowing me to not be entirely alone.

Let me share some photos.

That is my leg that Tarquin is cuddled up against! That night, my leg was his pillow!

This is one of Tarquin's favourite positions. 

He crawls up as close to my face as he can, then finds a way to curl up.

What has been consuming my time!

Sorry for not blogging for the last few weeks, but for the three weeks after my last blog I was working 12-18 hour days in preparation for the Kids Fun Day!

It was an amazing event, and everyone (children and adults alike) learned so much about God and each other! I'll just share a couple of clips of this time.
The first two are from a nap on one of my few rest days. Tarquin looked so gorgeous, I couldn't resist to take a snap!

I can share a couple of the Kids Fun Days... unfortunately I can't share ones that have the kids in it... but maybe you'll get a feel for how awesome it was!!!

God Sighting Maps - over 250 Sightings over the whole week!

Amazing Singing and worshipping God - this pic taken on Fancy dress day!

Creative messages!

Fun times and...

Great Food!!!

And an amazing team of people, all serving God together!
(And this is only some of them!)

God is so good! He gave everyone the energy that we needed to run this program, love the children and have fun with no accidents!!!!!!!! Lots of new friends were made and we have received only good feedback!!!!

WOOHOO!!!! God is good!!!!

Praise the Lord!!!

Images from home

My dancing orchids are sitting on top of my tallboy; perfect for me to view from my bed.

I woke up to this, this morning. 

Tarquin was sleeping next me - head on my pillow, paw resting on it.

So beautiful. 

I love Tarquie!

Mr Gecko - Incognito

Two nights ago, I arrived home tired, but knowing that I needed to vacuum my floor and mop the kitchen and bathrooms. They were in desperate need  of a clean. As I walked toward my kitchen, I thought that there were more leaves on the carpet than I remembered. Upon turning on the light, look what I discovered...

Mr Gecko - INCOGNITO!!!!

He was about 10 cm long and at about the same time, Tarquin came out of his warm cocoon in my bedclothes to welcome me home. However on discovering Mr Gecko, found him far more interesting. So I rescued him and put him on a rock outside. Hopefully I will still see Mr Gecko around in the future. Just not on my carpet - I really don't want to step on him.

More Animal Love - Tarquin

It was really nice to wake up this morning feeling ready to greet the world. I didn't bounce out of bed, but I felt ok. 

On mornings like this, 

with sun streaming through my bedroom window, 

I love to take a couple of extra hours at home before going into church to work. 

This morning it gave me the opportunity to just enjoy watching Tarquin have the life of a cat.

Sun-baking

Yawning and grooming 

I've really needed Tarquie around this week. He's been through so much with me.

It was also nice to go for a walk down some of the local streets, wander in the local nursery and look after my neglected veggie patch. I even managed to get into church at a reasonable hour!

Animal Love

Today's gift God had for me came in the form of his creatures. Tarquin has been his usual, loving self. 
This morning he followed me out my front door and sat sunning himself. 

And what should I meet? A very friendly, although wild, King Parrot. This parrot and I whistled to each other and he kept flying for perch to perch. He got to within a metre of me at one stage. 

But then Zazu (the neighbour's Siamese kitten) came on the scene and decided to chase the King Parrot around. (Although here she is begging for pats).

The King Parrot didn't seem to mind playing cat and mouse and Tarquin watched these proceedings intently from his place outside the front door. 

I love animals. I love Tarquin so much... he's so expressive. In fact he is contentedly sitting on my lap, with the V8 purring machine going.

Some creation to add to the box

This week's been a bit of a downer for me. No real reason - just don't feel great. It's harder to see beauty around me when this is the case, so I'm going to put up a couple of things I've seen over the last couple of weeks that I haven't added.

At the conference this week, there was a Bowerbird that had made it's nest right near the cabin I was in. If you don't know anything about Bowerbird's, the male makes the nest and decorates it, hoping to attract a mate. The male is black - like a small crow - but in the sun is iridescent blue! As you can see from the pictures below this Bowerbird has found bright blue 'rope' and put it around his nest. There were stolen blue pegs too :). The nest itself is the vertical twigs with the tunnel in the middle. Mr Bowerbird is in the nest in this photo.

So you will have seen my earlier veggie box post, well about a week ago, I pulled up the rest of my carrots - and have a look at what I found in the bunch.

The are so entwined that I am not going to be able to separate them without breaking them away from each other!!!!!

I love purple, and a couple of weeks ago I was waiting to cross the road at some traffic lights, and have a look at the bower of purple hanging over the fence.

Finally, the most beautiful thing that I've had happen, I don't have a photo of. When I arrived home from my conference on Wednesday evening, Tarquin came out to see me. He followed me around for the rest of the night and took every opportunity he could to cuddle up with me and purr loudly. He is an enormous blessing to me. I don't think I've posted a photo of him on here yet, so I've got one I took about a month ago of him enjoying one of my pillows and the sun.