Weekly Image of Life: Weekend
No longer do I spend my weekends idly contemplating life. Now I find them pack full of laughter, conversation and traipsing around the place. In the company of a beautiful soul. So many interests we...
View ArticleTravel Theme: Walls
Walls, Travel themes subject this week. Ettamogah pub and nearby shops at Glenview on the Bruce Highway near Caloundra is a tribute to Australiana. Not exactly ‘walls’ as such, this is a selection....
View ArticleNot even the birds .. just duck weather
This weekends weather saw even the birds take shelter … unless they were water birds… Butcher birds ventured onto the verandah .. Searching for food for her young .. Water logged from the wet. Even the...
View ArticleAustralia Day Long Weekend on the East Coast … a Wash-Out
Australia Day celebrates our long weekend. In Queensland it’s another disaster zone. Just two years after the horrific floods of 2010, Queensland again goes under. This time as a result of the massive...
View ArticleSoul Gems: Magickal
~ Magickal ~ Intentionally spelt this way. It fits for me. Has an even more ‘magickal’ feeling. Magickal, Mystical, Mysterious, Enchanting Out of the ordinary. A one off occasion. Special. Almost...
View ArticleWild Weekly Challenge: Green
Let’s be Wild Weekly Challenge … Green. Queensland is a beautiful green state. Sub-tropical and such a rich area. Cute but pesky lil green grasshoppers Green tree frog Different variety green tree frog...
View ArticleTravel Theme: Mountains
Mt Tibrogargan in the Glass House Mountains is volcanic, only 364m high. But it stands out on the sky-line. It fascinates me every time I see it. Travel Theme this week is mountains Filed under: Photo...
View ArticleTravel Theme: Roads
Travel Theme: Roads Spending the weekend up with my parents. Early morning walks down the road. Drives up the country through Wooroolin. So much rain lately, the country is so green. Sun shines through...
View ArticleWild Weekly Challenge: Spring
Wild Weekly Challenge this week is Spring. But in the southern hemisphere it’s now early Autumn. Yet I live in Queensland’s sub-tropical climate. Late summer heavy rain has left us with incredibly lush...
View ArticleChasing Butterflies
Waking in the country, the sound of kookaburras, crows and blue wrens greeting the approaching day. Still dark, the sky just beginning to lighten, its incredibly quiet under wide open cloud filled...
View ArticleWild Weekly Challenge: Distant
Driving home today, I decided to take a detour through to Mt Mee in south east Queensland. The roads windy, narrow and hilly. A favourite ride for motorcyclists. I stopped at one of the lookouts and...
View ArticleTides Out … Brighton
Seems forever since I posted a photo blog. Sunday saw me on my weekly walk along the bay with Crystal. This time we headed further up to Brighton, adjoining Sandgate. As the tide was way out, we walked...
View ArticleWinters Day on Straddie
It’s been awhile since I visited Stradbroke Island. Such a beautiful island. Crystal clear crisp winter skies. Sparkling ocean. White sand. Pelicans lazily cruising along the shore. The incredible...
View ArticleFriars and Apostles
Lunch time picnic with the family. Surrounded by birds and trees and streams. Little Friar Birds named for their bald patch heads. The juveniles have the yellow markings. Their tail fans out. Apostle...
View ArticleWondai Sunset
Holidays. Two weeks. My son is visiting from the west. My middle brother and my nieces are visiting. My parents have half the family with them. They moved down the road to a larger country town. I miss...
View ArticleCountry Wanderings
Some time ago, I was again up at Memerambi visiting my parents. This time I travelled up with my longtime friends. Of course my camera was with me. As life has a way of taking on its own meaning, I …...
View ArticleStradbroke Winter on the Bay
It’s funny how we go along for quite a while posting, photographing regularly, getting out and about, then before we realise time has again flown by and the posts and photography have become sporadic,...
View ArticleBeauty on the Bay
I decided to post these photos in a separate blog to the previous one, simply because I edited them a little differently, and was very pleased with the results … a bucket list dream … Taken recently,...
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