Yes it was February last year that I last wrote and 2014 was a mixture of good and less so. Good was Tina continuing to improve in her health, good in rediscovering friends from our youth who migrated to Canada a few years before we came to Australia. Good that the eye specialist was happy with the progress of the melanoma in my right eye. Good that at last we were able to book the holiday we'd planned to do five years ago but events got in the way. Oh and Wallaga Lake continued to provide daily delight with its ever changing vista's of light and shade.

Less so my muse which departed for much of the year, thought I did continue to make pictures, and Tina had here hip replacement 

Rock ShelfRock patterns and seashells await the next wave at La Perouse done successfully  and can  walk again without to much discomfort.  

Ah! and while this was going on my dear friends Des and Norma Crawley played hosts  so I could spend time with Tina before and after surgery and at other times Des took me to places I'd not seen before to make pictures, after much goading I started to think again about my flower book.

You know after all It really was a good year, the book is finished to the point of spell checking, thank you Heather, and fact checking, thank you Dane, Stuart and Jackie. By the end of the week It should be off to "Blurb" for printing and E-book creation. Now I wonder if anyone would be interested in a picture book featuring Wallaga Lake - Um...