I’ve been feeling out of sorts, since Monday the 1st of February 2016 to be precise. That’s 1,862 days – I worked it out. The day Chief and I left Adelaide for a new life in Brisbane – the day I checked out of being a hands-on Mum and the day I became not me. […]
I’ve neglected my blog and WordPress for the last few weeks. Life got really busy – as I’m sure you can all appreciate – and then the mad preparations for the festive season followed by the need for us to transform ourselves into the ‘new us for the new year’. Christmas was wonderful and exhausting […]
For this week’s challenge, share a photo of liquid in whatever state, shape, or color you happen to capture it in. You can go as big as the ocean or as small as a teardrop, as clear as vodka or as opaque as milk. Let’s raise a glass to your photos. When I first read […]
Tour Guide Share with us an image, or two, or three, (or more!) of where you live. For bonus points, tell us what it is about the photo(s) that you love. I live in Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland in Australia which IS a country, as well as a continent even if you don’t […]
Variations on a Theme Where the ocean meets the land
Rain settling on a Bottlebrush (Callistemon). Credit goes to my daughter ‘Flossy’ for this super shot, captured on a family trip to Queensland. Last year saw an unusual migration of Caper White butterflies in Brisbane, having been blown further east than usual on their migration. Transient
This week when I was cleaning our shower room I stopped for a moment to admire an old Timothy Whites chemist bottle that we use as a ‘decorative piece’ on the windowsill. Timothy Whites was a chain of chemists, founded in the latter half of the 1800’s, incorporated in 1904 and taken over by Boots the […]
Living in tropical Queensland there is an abundance of lush green tropical plants and vegetation which appears so vibrant against the deep blue sky. It IS Easy Being Green!
The city of Brisbane in Queensland Australia was built on a river – the Brisbane River (why complicate matters?) The river and the city are a good match and without it, Brisbane would be odd – no river taxis and nocity cats, no paddle steamer and no mangroves. It has several different skylines as the […]
Waking the Wombat