Journey Around the Sun - Days 79 through 85

So this is the first week of our holiday at Rainbow Beach, I decided to do it in two lots to avoid one big long post and I'm struggling through the editing.
At the beginning of this week I was so sick and spent most days just sitting on the veranda, I still actually have the cough but it's more irritating than being really sick now. My husband could only get one week off, the second one, so this week I was flying solo and so I didn't take the camera to the beach much, I was scared of getting it all sandy, I had to use the blower on it a lot and I lost count of the number of times I dropped the lens cap in the sand, but at least it wasn't the whole camera!

Day Seventy Nine

Florabella Chardonnay texture applied

Florabella Olive Juice & Golden Autumn texture applied

Florabella Lady Grey texture applied

Processed with Spring Flowers, Violet action

Wild Liriope flowers, these were flowering along the path to the beach, they are so sweet I think, taken with my 50mm together with an extension tube, so they are pretty little!

Processed with The CoffeeShop Blog Velvet Truffle action

Seed pod on the beach, taken with my 50mm together with an extension tube.

Processed with The CoffeeShop Blog Velvet truffle action

Processed with The CoffeeShop Blog Sunkissed action

My son, isn't he cute! :-)

Day Eighty

Florabella Golden Autumn texture applied

Grevilleas in the garden.

Day Eighty One

Processed with Isabelle Lafrance Soulful Everyday Vintage

Both Processed with The CoffeeShop Blog Velvet Truffle action

Spinifex grasses on the beach. I just learnt something, these are the male plants, I have some female plants later in my second week, which have spiky inflorescence. Wow, I did not know that. I love the Internet!

Day Eighty Two

Both Photos Florabella Olive Juice texture applied

Vine tendrils, taken with my 50mm together with an extension tube.

Chambord and Shabby Scratch textures by Florabella applied and processed with Isabelle Lafance Soulful Everyday Vintage

Michelia Coco, a type of Magnolia.

Day Eighty Three

Processed with Paint the Moon Warm Chai action

My mum has a house here, which is where we stay. She actually made these stain glass windows for the dining room of her house, designed and cut the glass herself and did the lead lighting. Aren't they beautiful.

Day Eighty Four

Both photos processed with The CoffeeShop Blog Velvet Truffle action

When it was too hot on the beach my son painted pictures of the shells he's collected on the beach.

Day Eighty Five

Processed with The CoffeeShop Blog Velvet Truffle action

Both photos processed with Isabelle Lafrance Soulful Everyday Vintage action

Shells and patterns on the beach.

Processed with Paint the Moon Warm Chai action & Florabella Sonata texture applied

The sun setting in the garden, Dracaena and garden bokeh.