the first night & day

our first night in our new home... Katoomba greeted us well, with the un-expected weather.. cold, rain and windy... Mother Mary was placed at our door, candles lit & we tucked ourselves up into bed and promptly fell asleep to a gale blowing outside. weather warnings had been issued for gale force winds... but I slept. and as i did, I could feel Avalon, wrap her arms around me.. rocking me to sleep. I had come home.

morning dawned... rain and sunshine - wind and hail... my computer is on an old 1930's woodend table..sitting looking out my window I feel like a writer. the mist rolled in over the apple tree blossom. what more could i want.

I do not know how many times I am going to say that I have come home

the lilac is blooming - an exquisite perfume. the iris are in bud, a tree of unknown name, is budding.. cannot wait to find out what it is. i found out that one of my apple trees is actually a plum....
the beginnings of my life at Avalon

home

self portrait - a stick from my apple tree - my journey stick
I really am home. I sat under the old apple tree, feet bare upon the ground, eyes closed, breathing the essence of my new home town - Katoomba, into each and every cell of my being. it felt right. it felt comfortable, like an old cardigan wrapping around me, full of memories deep within. nurturing and acceptance. a gentle, calm energy. I knew at that moment that this is where I will begin the next part of my journey - the journey of coming to know who I really am. what can I say? except that I am blessed. I am grateful. I am home.
My very own Avalon, where there are not one but two old apple tree. two lilacs and room for my chooks. a space where I can sit, ponder and search. where I can lay upon Mother Earth and not fear spiders and snakes. a place where sometimes winds will howl incessantly, where it may snow in winter. a place where the mists of the ancestors roll in.

I knew that I was in the right place when I spied this Pixie through my camera lens.. in the boughs of the apple tree.. can you see him?

[we move into Avalon next week]