I had two of the three seams sewn yesterday, then I turned my back and this happened:

So that last seam wasn’t done until the late afternoon, when the Call of the Stomach lured away the blanket stowaway. This morning I puzzled the neighbours by tossing the blanket over the decking railing and taking photographs. With gum trees in the background.

‘Green Blanket’, right on the tail of ‘Red Blanket’ seems a rather uninspired name. So I’m going to take inspiration from the photo and call it the Gum Tree Blanket.

The trees in the background are lemon gums, because if you crush the leaves they give off a strong, delicious lemony scent. They have graceful limbs and the bark is a lovely pale pink that seems to glow in the late afternoon light. They’re not native to this area, but there are heaps of them, so I suspect someone planted a whole lot in the area twenty or thirty years ago.