The Gallery - Mother Nature

The theme at the brilliant Sticky Finger's The Gallery this week is Mother Nature.  I had to look it up, just to be sure my interpretation was right..

Mother Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth) is a common personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it in the form of the mother.

Okay so slightly literal but this is a 'personification' of nature in the form of the mother:

Baby Shower guests

Taken by my friend at her baby shower. She was the only one who was actually pregnant. The rest of us had balloons up our jumpers (haha, fooled you! I doubt it...) That's me in the middle coveting the kind of neat bump mother nature never bestowed on me.  It was a huge relief to take the balloons out, they stretch your jumper something rotten.

My friend sent me this to cheer me up when she heard about my mum, little did she know it would solve my The Gallery too. 
Why not check out some more of the entries in the brilliant, brilliant The Gallery (link above).