Saturday, August 19, 2023

A Lookout

 
 
This solar-worked Koala sits on our windowsill and surfs with the sun.
Reckon I won´t see this for real when we go back to Perth, though - I bought him here in Braunschweig, btw.
I have a "Nellie" here, and we touched a real Koala back in 2013 in Caversham Wildlife Park cause friends "forced" us to - the fur is amazing and we were super-careful on the very sadly stressed fella, too, see here, if you like.
 
It´s a boy, otherwise it would be a bikini, right?
 
It suddenly warmed up, so we had a BBQ on the balcony and talked forever about anything and nothing yesterday night -  a real summer day and evening after all the cold, rainy weeks!!!
 
Surfin´ in our hearts, kinda. 
 
To a happy Saturday, hope your weather is to your liking (I know... whilst we froze our butts off in grey, rainy, cold days, some in Spain, Greece etc, and America "suffered" a heat wave I am so longing for - and getting a wee bit, warmth, not heat, but better than the cold!).
 
Henry 🦁
 

 
Thank you, summer, for paying a visit - please, pretty please, stay!
 

 

17 comments:

River said...

Those other countries are also suffering raging fires and every day I hope it rains for them.
I clicked the link to see Ingo touching the koala, the tree on your bracelet represents the Tree of Life, I have one hanging on my wall with crystal prisms to make rainbows but it isn't hanging in the sun, so no rainbows.
I like your surfing koala drawing very much, I used to always watch any surfing movies on TV because I just love those waves.

Iris Flavia said...

Yes, just look to Hawaii lately and ohhh.. even parts of Germany. Others drowned (South / Frankfurt especially) - weird, sick, sad weather.
To the tree!! I have to admit... No idea where that bracelet is, shame on me! I have an idea, though!
And I remember right you HOLD a Koala in your arms, correct?
I tried surfing on (it´s "on" not "in" cause it belongs to Spain, right?) Mallorca at age 14. I failed badly and burned my back on top.
I was so disappointed I failed - it looked like so much fun!!
Clumsiness. My bad.

Bettie said...

Love that bracelet.

Iris Flavia said...

Hope it really was for a good cause!

eileeninmd said...

Hello Iris,
I love your surfing Koala, very cute. Henry is enjoying the sunshine.
I do like the warmer weather but not the heat waves and the wildfires are down right scary. I enjoy your real koala post too, I have only seen them in zoos.
Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, have a happy weekend. PS, thank you for leaving me a comment.

Iris Flavia said...

Eileen, thank you for making me think more of critters.
Yes, fires ares are scary - as the floodings...
The meetup with the Koala was special (and sad). Sad because the carer must´ve seen the animal had stress - and didn´t stop the action.

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Tom, off to the balcony!!! :-)

Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...

Amazing that you are the second person this morning to talk about koalas. A real cutie, dear.

My name is Erika. said...

Cute cute Koala. :) And I noticed when I went to comment on Elizabeth's blog you were sad and said Stevenson doesn't blog anymore. He is back on; he now lives in Barcelona. If you need his web address let me know. hugs-Erika

magiceye said...

Glad you finally had the summer you've been waiting for!

Jeanie said...

sounds like a lovely summer evening with your BBQ. I love your koala art. They're beautiful animals, aren't then.

Bill said...
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Bill said...

Sounds like you had a fantastic evening and the weather was enjoyable.

RedPat said...

It is to be 29˚C here tomorrow so I plan on spending the day out on the deck. It will soon be winter so we must take advantage of the warmth. ;-)

~Lavender Dreamer~ said...

It's hot here but we've had some good showers this week so it's been better. Hope you enjoy your summer weather too!

gigi-hawaii said...

Surfers galore when waves are high in Hawaii. Glad you enjoyed your bbq.

Iris Flavia said...

Elizabeth, please visit River today!!!

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Erika, Barcelona, really?! Yes, please give me the link. No idea why he never let me know, this is "a bit" disappointing...
Hugs and thank you

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magiceye, YES, hope it lasts a bit!

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Jeanie, thank you, yes, they are cute (from afar).
River braved up holding one! See here.

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Bill, it was - till the mossies shoewd up...

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RedPat, 27C is the goal today! :-) Do not talk of winter, please. Fall is bad enough, I always "fall"...

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Lavender Dreamer, I did and do enjoy the little summer we get!

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gigi, I failed BIG at surfing.... but did great with the BBQ (OK, Ingo did, I only did preparing and eating... and washing up)

William Kendall said...

Henry looks pleased.