Warm Spring

 We had a few days of beautiful warm Spring weather a while back. For the first time in months we were able to go outside with the girls as the sun went down, without jackets, in bare feet, and able to sit on the grass without feeling frozen. The girls have kept active over Winter, and it shows..... Ella with her Gymnastics .......

And both girls spend hours in the back yard (and at school) skipping (no matter what the weather). Rob has helped them make a beautiful new plaited rope and Abi glued on the handles this warm afternoon, to finish off the job............

But Abi's true passion is her horse riding (of course). On a lovely sunny warm weekend, a week ago, Abi had a wonderful riding session on Tinker the riding school pony. Like a lot of ponies Tinker can be a bit tricky to handle at times, but on this day Abi was in complete control and got the very best out of this prettiest of little ponies ........

But the promise of warm weather was short lived. We've just had a week of rain, storms, freezing winds and lots of snow on the nearby ranges. But we've also had this spectacular double rainbow........ I took these pictures from our winter garden windows.......