heart shaped leaf

ON the way home from school today my daughter found a perfectly heart-shaped leaf.

it's kinda cool I think

event day

We (husband and I and 350 other people) have now accomplished the run we have been training for (well I have been training, he has been too busy, but done a little bit).  Loop the Lake.  Beautiful sunny day, lots of tree roots, lots of rocky river beds dry and wet, many undulations, mountains, a big lake and some beautiful native plants.  I ran it in 2hrs 38minutes and 20 seconds and came 126th.  I ran quicker than last year and me and husband got our second night away from the kids in 12 years(my mum looked after them for the night).  So It was all very nice.  Funny photo of me running through a river here, ha ha.

 This is probably the only flat section of the whole run, but it is the only bit I have a photo of.

cow parsley

More photos of a close up botanical theme.  The flowers of the cow parsley are so pretty and the colour so delicate.  Growing up there was a lot of cow parsley, in the garden in the landscape, I love to see it.

plants in close up

I went for a walk up a steep hill and down the other side, this morning and took photos of plants, wild flowers and some scenery.  And then I decided to do some photo cropping to get some pretty shapes and colours.

 there was lots of overlapping leaves and sunlight and shadows.

 and a heart

 I liked the shadows in this one

 above, sorry I thought this looked better than it does.

I managed to find some hearts in there, so I was a happy girl.